The objective of this study is to investigate the sensitivity of the estimated relationship between innovation and firm … different classifications of innovation. The analyses are performed in both level and growth rate dimensions. The overall …. -- Knowledge capital ; productivity ; innovation ; manufacturing ; services ; knowledge intensity ; Community Innovation Survey …

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 …

recurrent knowledge investment through innovation and potential spillovers from the local milieu. The majority of the exporting … that does not engage in innovation and has scarce access to external knowledge, the level of productivity is 2-12 percent … higher for an innovative firm, depending on how innovation is defined and where the innovator is located. The annual long …