benefits from innovation than knowledge intensive manufacturing firms? Empirical results based on innovation survey data …This paper serves as another complementary link in a chain of a rather limited number of investigations in the R&D-innovation …-productivity relationship within service industries. Innovation has been found to be a major contributor to productivity growth in manufacturing …

. -- Knowledge capital ; productivity ; innovation ; manufacturing ; services ; knowledge intensity ; Community Innovation Survey …The objective of this study is to investigate the sensitivity of the estimated relationship between innovation and firm … performance. In doing so, we rely on a knowledge production function approach and carry out comparisons in a number of respects …

recurrent knowledge investment through innovation and potential spillovers from the local milieu. The majority of the exporting … that does not engage in innovation and has scarce access to external knowledge, the level of productivity is 2-12 percent … firms are non-innovative. The data reveal that patent applicants located in knowledge intense milieus account for almost 40 …