investments, externalities and key actors in national innovation systems and productivity. This study explores whether foreign … embeddedness in scientific, vertical and horizontal innovation systems. However, the advantage of higher R&D intensity and possible … knowledge technological knowledge spillover does not manifest itself in superior innovation output or productivity performance …

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 …

This paper focuses on two research problems. The first is to measure the direct impacts of innovation support measures … in Brazil, and the second is to test the hypothesis of indirect effects of innovation policies on non-beneficiary firms … innovation have different purposes, and sound innovation relies on both types of incentive. …

productivity gains. In fact, the viability of innovation processes cannot be dissociated from the way market structures emerge and …

institutes, other temporal patterns of collaboration do not significantly improve innovation performance. Implications of these …

This article surveys the debate on the links between innovation, productivity and international production and draws … evolutionary pattern implies that multinationals accentuate their role as "bridging institutions" connecting different innovation …

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to provide an empirical analysis of whether differing forms of innovation act … this paper is empirical in nature. Data is obtained for approximately 582 firms from the Irish Community Innovation Survey … 2004-06. Four forms of innovation activity are identified; new to firm product, new to market product, process and …

that well-designed environmental policies can provide a “free lunch” – encouraging innovation, bringing about gains in …

This paper empirically examines the relationship between innovation, R&D (Research and Development), and productivity … structural model (CDM model) that describes the link between innovation output, R&D and productivity for the Thai case. Various … of process innovation and product innovation. Exporting plants, plants in the central region, and plants that are …

Indian pharmaceutical industry from a mere importer and distributor of drugs and pharmaceuticals to an innovation-driven cost …