investments, externalities and key actors in national innovation systems and productivity. This study explores whether foreign … knowledge technological knowledge spillover does not manifest itself in superior innovation output or productivity performance … that is subsequently exploited in affiliates abroad. Correspondingly, the innovation and productivity performance in …

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 …

that does not engage in innovation and has scarce access to external knowledge, the level of productivity is 2-12 percent …This paper is concerned with the productivity and growth of Swedish exporting firms. Using data on 9,580 manufacturing … recurrent knowledge investment through innovation and potential spillovers from the local milieu. The majority of the exporting …

This paper analyzes how different innovation-strategies of incumbent firms affect the quality of their entrepreneurial … files for the period 1997-2008, three types of incumbent firms are distinguished: firms that are engaged in innovation … new firm can be linked back to the innovation strategy of the parent firm. In contrast, there is strong evidence that …

innovation inputs to processes that generate regional productivity and productivity gains. We also find that the most effective …A longstanding research tradition assumes that endogenous technological development increases regional productivity. It … endogenous creation of new ideas that result in productivity improvements. This process has been conceived as occurring in two …

This paper examines variation in a productivity growth within a given location and between different locations …. Implementing a dynamic panel data approach on Swedish micro data, we test the separate and complementary effect of innovation and … innovators, temporary innovators and non-innovators. The results are consistent regardless of whether innovation efforts are …

(MNE) firms and concentration in specific places due to agglomerative forces. First, innovation ideas arrive at a faster … speed to firms with past experience of innovation activities and with established export market contacts. Second …, innovativeness is strongly dependent on corporate and ownership structure. Third, the returns to innovation efforts are positively …

-level Community Innovation Survey (CIS) data set to consider the economy in the period preceding the collapse of its financial system …

expenditure, (ii) innovation output, and (iii) firm productivity. The CDM model has become popular in many countries among …This paper applies a CDM-model framework to depict the successive links (correlations) between (i) innovation … scholars using data from the Community Innovation Survey (CIS). First, the study contrasts a general structural OECD version of …