Using micro data from Brazilian manufacturing firms, this paper investigates the impact of a wide set of innovation … clients, human capital development, ICT usage, product innovation and learning by exporting, with an R&D effect only in the … long run. Though the intensity with which firms engage in these innovation activities is sector dependent, innovation …

attention give by both volumes to innovation and education -- two areas that are generally felt to be very important in terms of …

process innovation on productivity in the Chilean manufacturing industry during the past decade. In general, the evidence … suggests there is not a contemporaneous effect of product innovation on productivity, but there is a positive effect of process … innovation. This notsignificant effect of product innovation contrasts with evidence of studies for other countries. However, the …

This paper examines the impact of investment in research and innovation on Australian market sector productivity. While … productivity. Moreover, the paper pays special attention to the role played by public support for research and innovation in the … innovation policy as they provide insights into possible productivity gains from government funding reallocations. …

This paper compares the role of innovation and economic performance across European and Latin American countries, using … linking R&D intensity, innovation and productivity. We find evidences revealing structural differences between regions, but … also presence of heterogeneity within regions. In particular, firms tend to face innovation activities to achieve a better …

Business innovation is an important driver of productivity growth. In this paper, I assess the importance of R&D and … the CDM model that treats ICT together with R&D as the main inputs into innovation and productivity, and test it on a … large unbalanced panel data set based on the innovation survey for Norway. Four different types of innovation and the number …

This paper raises the question of the relationship between innovation and productivity conditional to ICT use and R …&D activities during the innovation process. Concretely, we wonder whether R&D activities and ICT use considered as innovation … these innovation outputs conditional to ICT use and R&D lead to a higher level of labour productivity. In this adaptation of …

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 …