presents some empirical evidence on the effects of innovation on employment growth and therefore on firms' productivity with … process innovation. The sources of employment growth during the period are split equally between the net contribution of … product innovation and the net contribution from sales growth of old products. However, the contribution of product innovation …

We propose a model where both R&D and ICT investment feed into a system of three innovation output equations (product …, process and organizational innovation), which ultimately feeds into a productivity equation. We find that ICT investment and … usage are important drivers of innovation in both manufacturing and services. Doing more R&D has a positive effect on …

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 …

Evidence of user innovation in firms in Maputo Province is presented. This results from a case study of firms that had … previously been identified in the Mozambican National Innovation Survey 2009 as process innovators. While the observations are … too few to support statistical inferences, they demonstrate the presence of user innovation in firms and they suggest …

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 …

After presenting the history, the evolution and the content of innovation surveys, we discuss the characteristics of … have been made of these data: the construction of scoreboards for monitoring innovation and the scholarly analysis of … various issue related to innovation. In particular we review the questions examined and the results obtained regarding the …