There is growing interest in modelling the relationship between innovation and productivity in developing and … investigates whether there is a significant relationship between technological innovation and productivity in the manufacturing … of equations on innovation expenditure, innovation outcome and productivity. Our results show that during 1998-2000 only …

Using cross-sectional firm-level data, this paper examines the determinants of productivity among manufacturing firms … environment in which firms operate in affecting productivity. Of the technological variables, R&D as well as product and process … and higher education of the management appear to affect productivity. Some important influences from the broader business …

regions will attract more workers and use employment growth as a measure of local productivity growth. However, this approach … we relax these assumptions, regional adjusted wage growth is a better measure of productivity growth than employment …

as a proxy for a firm's ability to improve its productivity growth and profitability. The case study reported here … production function in which the dependent variable is alternatively (labor) productivity growth and profitability. Although … patents with the EPO and both productivity growth and, in particular, profitability. This suggests that firms might pursue …

This paper examines the impact of infrastructure on productivity in the various regions of Spain. Using the duality … increases overall productivity. Finally, there is a study of the existence of spillover effects in transport infrastructure …

Using two matched plant level skills and productivity datasets for UK manufacturing we document that (i) more …

What is the effect of imports on productivity? To answer this question, we estimate a structural model of producers … productivity through expanding variety as well as improved input quality. The model leads to a production function where the total … factor productivity of a firm depends on the share of inputs imported. To estimate this import-augmented production function …