The paper addresses the relevancy of networking activities and R&D as main drivers of productivity performance and … performance. The complementarity with networking is a consequential step. Networking by itself cannot thus play a role in … networking are to be sustained and favoured. our evidence suggests that R&D may be a single main driver of performance. Since R …

correlated with domestic firm performance, while imports are found to have a significant positive effect on TFP growth of such … firms. We conclude that trade (imports) appears to have played an important role as a channel for improved performance of …