The importance of R&D spillovers for productivity growth has been well documented in the literature. While studies in … the developed country context have focused extensively on sectoral linkages, research on North-South spillovers has … largely been confined to the aggregate level. This paper assesses the contribution of international R&D spillovers to …

innovative spillovers through knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS), particularly within the manufacturing and business … services subsectors. These spillovers have a networking effect on innovation products in the manufacturing and services …). The main results express that R&D expenditures embodied in KIBS spillovers have a significant effect on the generation of …