ultimately affect innovation and productivity in Uruguayan service firms compared to manufacturing firms. The results show that …Several studies have highlighted information and communications technology (ICT) as a driver of firm productivity in …-technological (e.g., organizational or marketing) innovations. ICT and other innovation investments are positively associated with …

This paper examines the links between innovation and productivity in service enterprises. For this purpose, we use … structural model. Our results indicate that innovation in service enterprises is linked to higher productivity. In all three … countries analysed, among the innovation types that we consider, the strongest link between innovation and productivity was …

This paper examines the links between internationalisation, innovation and productivity in service enterprises. For … higher productivity. Among the innovation types that we consider, the largest productivity returns were found for marketing … this purpose, we use micro data from the Community Innovation Survey 2008 in Germany, Ireland and the United Kingdom, and …

estimates for an extended production function framework reveal significant productivity effects of ICT in the German service … productivity differentials between firms …

deepening and innovation for productivity. We employ a model that takes into account that innovation and ICT use may be … productivity appears to be of the same order of magnitude in the two countries. However, the direct impacts of innovation on multi … technological innovations on a more permanent basis. Moreover, the joint impact of ICT use and permanent technological innovation on …

manufacturing sectors. To date, companies increasingly rely on outside innovation for new products and processes and have become … more active in licensing and selling results of their innovation to third parties. At the same time, they may rely on the …

In this paper we analyse the relationship between export and innovation activities of German service sector companies … using data from the 1997 wave of the Mannheim Innovation Panel in the Service Sector. There is a lot of support for the … Schumpeterian hypothesis of export activities being mainly driven by innovation activities. Factor endowment theories are only …

innovation by using a sample of 108 Tunisian service firms. Specifically, we are interested in the domestic outsourcing of … innovation. This suggests that outsourcing allows Tunisian service firms to create value, increase flexibility and improve the …

of the law protecting trade secrets on innovation and productivity growth in the service sector … role of patents and trade secrets on innovation. According to the analysis, first, service firms have fewer product … innovations than do manufacturing firms, but the productivity of innovative service firms is very high. Second, service firms have …