Does FDI affect innovation, productivity growth, and knowledge sourcing activities of domestic firms? This study … spillovers on process innovation. These effects do not depend on the local firms’ distance to the productivity frontier. The … employs detailed firm-level panel-data from Estonia’s manufacturing sector to investigate different channels through which FDI …

There is growing interest in modeling the relationship between innovation and productivity in developing and transition … whether there is a significant relationship between technological innovation and productivity in the manufacturing sector of … Estonia. We use firm-level data for the analysis from two waves of Community Innovation Surveys (CIS3 and CIS4) from 1998 …

The slower productivity growth in Canada relative to that experienced in the United States in the second half of the … development. A key issue is whether this slower productivity growth is broadly-based, which would imply a societal … productivity growth in Canada and the United States in the 1990s. They find that the productivity growth gap in the 1990s at both …

Objective – This study proposed a model to test the impacts of the four dimensions of service innovation (i.e., process … innovation, organisational innovation, marketing innovation and product innovation) on tourist satisfaction in the Malaysian … tourism. Methodology/Technique – Measurement items for the dimensions of services innovation were developed through focus …

It is widely recognized that innovation is the major driver of economic growth and competitiveness. But, some works … focus especially on analyzing the determinants and the effects of innovation while distinguishing product innovation to … process innovation. This distinction is often regarded as a fundamental assumption but the way in which firms make the …

the Regional Innovation Systems approach it is argued that cities provide crucial innovation advantages working as … infrastructures on the innovation probability of KIS firms. However, the effects vary with the type of innovation pursued, thus … demonstrating a high complexity of local relations conducive to KIS firm innovation. …

and innovation. KIBS are generally understood as depending, driving and thriving on knowledge exchanges and therefore … paper investigates how the innovation performance and processes of KIBS firms are related to their distance from the nearest … city size effects, and these also vary according to the innovation type. …

of incremental and radical firm innovation using firm micro data from the KIBS Foundation Survey. The results show that …. Access to knowledge from universities and research institutions is particularly important for radical innovation … and clients from the manufacturing sector: these stimulate in particular incremental, but also radical innovation …