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The effect of innovative SMEs' growth to the structural renewal of the EU economy - A projection to the year 2020 –

Moncada-Paterno-Castello, Pietro; Voigt, Peter - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2013

The Policy Brief addresses the following question: To what extent the high-growth of current innovative R&D-intensive SMEs can drive the envisaged structural change of the EU economy towards high R&D intensive sectors? It aims to contribute to the debate about how to set the right priorities and...

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Innovation and Productivity in Services: Evidence from Germany, Ireland and the United Kingdom

Peters, Bettina; Riley, Rebecca; Siedschlag, Iulia; … - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2014

This paper examines the links between innovation and productivity in service enterprises. For this purpose, we use … micro data from the Community Innovation Survey 2008 in Germany, Ireland and the United Kingdom, and estimate an augmented … structural model. Our results indicate that innovation in service enterprises is linked to higher productivity. In all three …

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Corporate R&D and firm efficiency: Evidence from Europe’s top R&D investors

Kumbhakar, Subal C.; Ortega-Argilés, Raquel; Potters, … - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2010

The main objective of this study is to investigate the impact of corporate R&D activities on firm performance, measured by labour productivity. To this end, the stochastic frontier technique is used on a unique unbalanced longitudinal dataset on top European R&D investors over the period...

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