private sector can help to stimulate growth. An analysis of innovation at the firm level for Caribbean manufacturing and … differences also exist. Innovative service firms are older, in contrast to manufacturing firms, which tend to be younger; foreign …

Is the German manufacturing industry, which has been leaving cities for less densely populated areas since World War II …

This paper presents an analysis of factors shaping technology-upgrading efforts in the Mozambican manufacturing sector … manufacturing technologies; (iii) and process engineering. In line with much of the literature on industrial organization and the … spheres of manufacturing, underscoring the multifaceted nature of technology change at this level. Moreover, factors often …

Indi's stagnating manufacturing sector has become a serious cause of concern for Indian policy makers. Several reasons … importance of the manufacturing sector and its potential to contribute to growth and employment, corrective measures must be … high value manufacturing sector and provides recommendations on measures to achieve this objective. In the absence of …

This study uses firm level data from two detailed surveys of Italian manufacturing firms to study the relationship …&D (product, process, internal, external in collaboration with universities, research centres and other firms) to Total Factor … significant, while cooperation in R&D with universities does not seem to lead to productivity enhancements. Because of the public …

This paper investigates to what extent the R&D behavior of manufacturing companies was influenced by the 2008/09 crisis …. Based on a broad official data set for German manufacturing companies, only a few companies that engaged in R&D during 2008 …