externally contracted R&D experience in the achievement of innovative results. Our results show that learning is important in the …

and R&D experience to endogenously affect productivity. In our empirical strategy we proceed in two steps: in the first … more general process driving the law of motion of productivity in which we recognise the potential role that export and R&D … experience might have in shaping future firms’ productivity, and test whether this assumption holds; in the second step, we …

findings indicate that the relationship between firms’ R&D experience and product innovations is non-linear, that is, that …, SMEs obtain more efficiency gains from R&D experience than large firms. …

This paper analyses the role of firms' R&D-experience in their innovative success using a representative sample of … investigate the influence of firms' R&D-experience in the achievement of innovative results. To estimate R&D-experience, partially … unobserved, we estimate a duration model and use the obtained results and a non-parametric procedure to impute R&D-experience …