, productivity growth and capital-labour conflict, with profits driven by product innovation and offshoring, and wages rising faster …

based allocation (Australia, California, New Zealand) and capacity based allocation (EU). This paper characterizes the best …

This paper analyzes the effect of different cooperation forms on innovation in small and medium enterprises in Belgium …, Germany, Portugal and Spain using Community Innovation Survey data from 2008. We find that vertical cooperation and knowledge … positive effect of horizontal cooperation on sales due to product innovation only in Germany. …

This paper aims at investigating the relationship between firms' profit efficiency, access to finance and innovation … efficiency in order to increase profitability. Among firms that have embarked in product innovation, those in the industry and … help to better understand the link between innovation, financial constraints and efficiency, which goes beyond the idea …

classes across all sectors and all EU Member States, we identify different innovation profiles based on a firm's R …&D investment and/or innovation activities. We find that "basic" firms - i.e. firms that do not engage in any type of R&D or … innovation - are more common among young SMEs, while innovators - i.e. firms that do R&D and introduce new products, processes or …

The labour productivity impact of innovation is investigated in this paper combining neo-Schumpeterian insights on the … variety of innovation, with the importance of industrial structures and firm size; two models are proposed for explaining … data from the European innovation survey (CIS 2), covering Austria, France, Italy, the Netherlands and the UK, broken down …

for different business strategies and innovation inputs connected to product and process innovations. The empirical … analysis uses innovation survey (CIS 2) data at the industry level for 22 manufacturing sectors, broken down in three firm size …