the links (correlations) between innovation investment, innovation output, firm productivity and export performance. …

This paper introduces dynamics in the R&D to innovation and innovation to productivity relationships, which have mostly … individual effects and idiosyncratic errors correlated across equations and that differ in the way innovation enters the … Community Innovation Survey. The results provide evidence of robust unidirectional causality from innovation to productivity and …

innovation market. If employment protection is introduced, firms’ willingness to pay for product or process innovations increases …. This shifts economic activity towards firms specializing in process and product innovation and triggers entry of new start …

This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the …-technology manufacturing, average innovation performance is higher in all industries in Germany and the innovation performance distributions … investing in product innovation in the majority of industries. Frontier firms enjoy the highest returns to pro duct innovation …

answer the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to (i) employment generation and dynamics, (ii) innovation …

, innovation, productivity and export performance augmented to take account for the role played by local externalities. This model … innovation output; the third focuses on Total Factor Productivity (TFP) as determined by innovation; the fourth relates export … to complement innovation output. Finally, urbanization economies support TFP in driving firms' export performance. …