This study uses firm level data from two detailed surveys of Italian manufacturing firms to study the relationship …&D (product, process, internal, external in collaboration with universities, research centres and other firms) to Total Factor … Productivity (TFP). Thus, this paper answers the call for more research on the links between a firm's external R&D and its …

role of foreign linkages to innovation activities of manufacturing firms in the CALABARZON region. Utilizing a probit … need to promote stronger regional and global linkages to sustain the manufacturing growth in CALABARZON. Moreover …

By exploiting establishment-level data for U.S. manufacturing, this paper sheds new light on the source of the changes …