that does not engage in innovation and has scarce access to external knowledge, the level of productivity is 2-12 percent …This paper is concerned with the productivity and growth of Swedish exporting firms. Using data on 9,580 manufacturing … recurrent knowledge investment through innovation and potential spillovers from the local milieu. The majority of the exporting …

regional innovation systems and international knowledge flow by using trade data on openness. The study distinguishes between … launching new products on the export market, and overall technical changes captured by total factor productivity growth. We … compare the new knowledge creation in 1,000 domestically and foreign owned Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) in Sweden over the …

and productivity impacts on manufacturing sectors in Senegal. Using unique firm-level panel data for the period 1998 … - 2011, we estimate productivity and exporting dynamics, controlling for other unobserved effects, and using General Method …

trajectory once they have entered? Theory points to the possibiliity of a further productivity boost, attributable to the effects …There is extensive empirical evidence pointing to the exsistence of sunk costs to exporting. Only higher productivity … econometric analyses reports that exporters are more productive than non-exporters. But what happens to their productivity …

This paper serves as another complementary link in a chain of a rather limited number of investigations in the R&D-innovation-productivity … relationship within service industries. Innovation has been found to be a major contributor to productivity growth in manufacturing …. In this paper, the importance of innovation is explored by comparing manufacturing and service firms in a sample of …

This paper studies the effect of competition on firm innovation by developing a discrete-time endogenous growth model … where multi-product firms do two types of innovation subject to friction in technology spillovers. Firms improve their … existing products through internal innovation while entering others' product markets through external innovation. We introduce …

embeddedness in regional innovation systems and international knowledge flow by using trade data on the openness of regional …,000 domestically and foreign owned Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) in Sweden over the period 1997-2008, and new knowledge exploiting … innovation and knowledge development. Managers must also foster capabilities that enable the firm to effectively utilize and …

embeddedness in regional innovation systems and international knowledge flow by using trade data on the openness of regional …,000 domestically and foreign owned Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) in Sweden over the period 1997-2008, and new knowledge exploiting … innovation and knowledge development. Managers must also foster capabilities that enable the firm to effectively utilize and …

productivity premia. In particular, we focused on 25 emerging Countries, and through a machine learning method, we evaluate how the …