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 …

include ICT investment and R&D as the two main inputs of innovation and productivity. We find that R&D and ICT are both … strongly associated with innovation and productivity, with R&D being more important for innovation and ICT for productivity. We … explore their possible complementarity in innovation and production but find none, although there is complementarity between R …

average, the strong gap in technological endowment and innovation capacity has been indicated as one of the most important … enterprises in Italy, comparing structural variables – in particular spatial and sectoral dimensions - with labour productivity … data) is that a linkage seems to emerge between high labour productivity and the IT industry. This is in line with the …

This Selected Issues paper presents Italy’s economic growth through innovation and reforms. It highlights that Italy⠅

successful countries in the manufacturing sector, and its export performance is resilient, while its level of productivity is … compensate the effect of low productivity on margins. This is true in aggregate terms, but the breakdown by companies size shows … low productivity and low margins. On the contrary, the mid-sized companies, which are the key of the Italian manufacturing …

International competitiveness, explained by a sharp reduction in the growth rate of labor productivity as well as of total factor … productivity. In the face of these difficulties, data show the relative resilience of the Italian industrial system, although with …

This paper analyzes the trend of industrial productivity in Italy in the decade preceding the 2008 crisis and compares … Malmquist productivity growth index is calculated by means of a robust non-parametric approach and decomposed into the two … subperiods: before 2000 the productivity slow-down is due mainly to the technological change component, while in the years 2003 …

structural remedies to boost productivity and competitiveness of Italian firms, such as the reduction and the requalification of …