. Only a recovery in innovation itself could trigger a sustainable recovery in productivity in the major OECD countries. …This paper brings together the latest data and OECD productivity indicators in different areas with the aim of … reviewing the main productivity trends over the past decade, comparing the United States, Europe and to some extent Japan …

increase productivity, flexibility and automation. Moreover, retail chains also seek to lower prices and impose just …

supply of skill). Third, OC leads to greater productivity increases in establishments with larger initial skill endowments …

Network industries are now characterized by a regime of permanent innovation, while they continue to be fixed and sunk …

represent in the market, they contribute to increase productivity of the economy. The problems of financing the SME’s are … based on innovation. Private equity activity is in this regard a better mode of financing innovative enterprises added to …

correlated to the size of investment of the innovation projects and the level of seniority is positively associated to the most … innovative projects. The seniority of champions explains positively the innovation success, but the hierarchical level has no …

relates to the type of innovation, the characteristics of the market sector in which they operate, the firms’ characteristics …