This paper analyses the persistency in innovation behaviour of firms. Using five waves of the Community Innovation … Transition Probability Matrix, we found evidence of (unconditional) state dependence in all types of innovation, with product …

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 …. In this paper, the importance of innovation is explored by comparing manufacturing and service firms in a sample of …

Recent studies have documented extensive heterogeneity in firm performance within countries, and innovation has been … found as an important determinant. This paper addresses the issue of innovation firm performance across countries. A growing … number of national firm level studies on the innovation-productivity link have been conducted using new internationally …

This paper analyzes various innovation strategies of firms. Using five waves of the Community Innovation Survey in … between sixteen innovation strategies, which compose of Schumpeterian 4 types of innovations (process, product, marketing, and … organizational) plus various combinations of these four types. First, we find that firms are not homogenous in choosing innovation …

This paper analyzes the effect of various innovation strategies of firms on their future performance, captured by … labour productivity. Using five waves of the Community Innovation Survey in Sweden, we have traced the innovative behaviour … of firms over a decade, i.e. from 2002 to 2012. We distinguish between sixteen innovation strategies, which compose of …