The rise of knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) may be considered as one of the decisive trends of economic … subsystem approach to input-output matrix analysis to study the vertical integration of knowledge-based business services into … manufacturing sectors. To date, companies increasingly rely on outside innovation for new products and processes and have become …

aimed at developing and/or introducing innovation, in addition to the scale of a firm's investments in innovation proxied by … a well-trained workforce, the knowledge created by a firm's R&D personnel can be better exploited), and their dependence … on a firm's knowledge intensity (high versus low % of tertiary-educated workforce) and size (SMEs versus large firms …

' innovation performance. In addition, it specifically analyses whether a firm's size affects the amount spent on design and the … return in terms of innovation output to this activity. In doing so, it partly compensates for the lack of empirical evidence …

Empresas, the Spanish innovation survey conducted annually by the Spanish National Statistics Institute (INE). The main …

The paper aims at estimating the innovation impact of the vertical integration of knowledge intensive business services … (KIBS) into manufacturing. Referring to the vertically integrated sectors of an economy allows innovative knowledge, which … manufacturing innovation is then estimated. By merging OECD data on sectoral R&D and input-output tables with sectoral patent …