This paper uses novel data on trade mark activity of UK manufacturing and service sector firms to investigate whether …

activities, this paper reports new results on the relationship between innovation and employment growth in manufacturing and … effect is independent of the novelty degree. Moreover, different employment effects between manufacturing and service firms …

&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 … benefits from innovation than knowledge intensive manufacturing firms? Empirical results based on innovation survey data …

This paper investigates the tendencies of co-location between producer services and manufacturing across Swedish … producer services is a function of the location of manufacturing and vice versa. The rationale for the simultaneous approach … comes from an assumption of a supplier-customer relation between the two categories of industries. Manufacturing firms …

outsourcing-type reallocation of these activities from manufacturing and the public sector towards private services. These …

associated with manufacturing productivity. Moreover, the link between productivity in services and manufacturing is particularly … strong for manufacturing firms that are more intensive in their use of services inputs. At the mean level of services input … use in the dataset, a 10% improvement in services productivity is associated with a 0.6% improvement in manufacturing …

, by decomposing changes in the level and share of manufacturing employment. The results indicate that in most countries … the decline in manufacturing employment is associated mainly with rising labour productivity in manufacturing …

&D investments, and (2) the dominant service content of production in the modern manufacturing firm. It pictures the firm as a …