R&D output to capture the contribution of R&D (direct and spilled-over) to regional productivity at the industry level …. The results suggest that interregional knowledge spillovers and their productivity effects are to a substantial degree …) produce interregional knowledge spillovers that have positive and highly significant productivity effects. The study, moreover …

The purpose of this paper is to examine how the Solow residual relates to innovation at the firm level. We estimate two … kinds of relationships. The first relationship explains innovation output from innovation inputs. The second relationship … relates TFP growth to innovation output. We obtain two main results. First, the determinants of incremental and radical …

This paper explores the employment impact of innovation activity, taking into account both R&D expenditures and …-2010. The main outcome from the proposed fixed effect estimations is a labor-friendly nature of total innovation expenditures … ETC is included as a proxy for innovation activities. Moreover, the positive employment impacts of innovation activities …

include ICT investment and R&D as the two main inputs of innovation and productivity. We find that R&D and ICT are both … strongly associated with innovation and productivity, with R&D being more important for innovation and ICT for productivity. We … explore their possible complementarity in innovation and production but find none, although there is complementarity between R …

addresses the issue of understanding how much differences in firms' productivity depend on regional localization and sector …

firm’s productivity, especially process innovation. Among SMEs, larger and older firms seem to be less productive …Innovation in SMEs exhibits some peculiar features that most traditional indicators of innovation activity do not … capture. Therefore, in this paper, we develop a structural model of innovation which incorporates information on innovation …

, productivity growth and innovation takes place within manufacturing sectors …

Productivity across European regions is related to three types of networks that mediate R&D-related knowledge … co-patenting relations appear to affect local productivity directly, regions that link up to innovative leader regions … via imports gain in productivity only when they have relatively high levels of human capital and absorptive capacity. From …