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 …

This paper asks three explicit questions, where the first one concerns the impact of a firm’s choice of innovation … strategy and knowledge resources. The study aims at confirming that firms with a strategy with R&D persistency have a markedly … knowledge milieu may augment the performance of firms. The third question concerns knowledge exchange in regional and global …

The availability of new internationally-harmonized innovation survey data collected from OECD countries has created … some interesting opportunities for studying the following two key areas: (1) the determinants of innovation behavior at … firm level, and (2) innovation as an important factor contributing to the economic growth. This paper looks at the …