innovation and knowledge management and their impact on performance at the firm level for a number of countries. These studies … have been conducted using data drawn from innovation surveys combined with data from a number of other sources. The issue … illustrates the value of these surveys in improving our understanding of innovation in firms and raises a number of questions for …

features: (i) A structural model that explains productivity by innovation output, and innovation output by research investment … being strictly proportional to size). The firm innovation output, as measured by patent numbers or innovative sales, rises …This paper studies the links between productivity, innovation and research at the firm level. We introduce three new …

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 …