We take a fresh look at firms' innovation-productivity linkages, using novel data capturing new aspects of innovative … IP, launches and productivity, controlling for media exposure and firm heterogeneity. Launch activity is associated with … higher SME productivity, especially in the service sector. High-quality launches and medium-size firms help drive this result. …

We take a fresh look at firms' innovation-productivity linkages, using novel data capturing new aspects of innovative … IP, launches and productivity, controlling for media exposure and firm heterogeneity. Launch activity is associated with … higher SME productivity, especially in the service sector. High-quality launches and medium-size firms help drive this result. …

technology (IT) and productivity by investigating several plant-level mechanisms through which IT could promote productivity … estimation of longitudinal models eliminate many sources of unmeasured heterogeneity that could confound productivity comparisons …