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Productivity Growth, Efficiency and Outsourcing in Manufacturing and Service Industries
Heshmati, Almas - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2000
This paper is a survey of recent contributions to, and developments of, the relationship between outsourcing …, efficiency and productivity growth in manufacturing and services. The objective is to provide a thorough and up-to-date survey …-specific modelling are discussed. Second, we survey the econometric approach to efficiency analysis. The issues of modelling …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005649271
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The link between firm-level innovation and aggregate productivity growth: a cross-country examination
Heshmati, Almas; Lööf, Hans - 2003
This paper investigates whether failure in innovation at the firm level can account for cross-country heterogeneity in manufacturing productivity growth. There is no strong evidence in the literature on the existence of such link. Our work, however, differs in a number of ways from much of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298125
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Innovation and performance in manufacturing industries: A comparison of the Nordic countries
Lööf, Hans; Heshmati, Almas; Asplund, Rita; Nåås, … - 2001
The availability of new internationally-harmonized innovation survey data collected from OECD countries has created … model might work when the survey sampling and questionnaire are identical but the national data sets are estimated … separately. Findings from the micro-based data in Europe known as Community Innovation Survey (CIS) data were subsequently …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281247
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On the relationship between innovation and performance: A sensitivity analysis
Lööf, Hans; Heshmati, Almas - 2001
The objective of this study is to investigate the sensitivity of the estimated relationship between innovation and firm performance. In doing so, we rely on a knowledge production function approach and carry out comparisons in a number of respects. The sensitivity analysis is based on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281410
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On the Relationship between Innovation and Performance: A sensitivity Analysis
Lööf, Hans; Heshmati, Almas - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2001
The objective of this study is to investigate the sensitivity of the estimated relationship between innovation and firm performance. In doing so, we rely on a knowledge production function approach and carry out comparisons in a number of respects. The sensitivity analysis is based on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005190850
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The link between firm-level innovation and aggregate productivity growth: a cross-country examination
Heshmati, Almas; Lööf, Hans - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2003
This paper investigates whether failure in innovation at the firm level can account for cross-country heterogeneity in manufacturing productivity growth. There is no strong evidence in the literature on the existence of such link. Our work, however, differs in a number of ways from much of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097608
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Knowledge Capital and Performance Heterogeneity: A Firm Level Innovation Study
Lööf, Hans; Heshmati, Almas - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2000
This paper is an empirical analysis of knowledge capital and performance heterogeneity at the firm level. We apply new econometric methods to extensive data on innovation and innovative activities in Swedish manufacturing. Knowledge capital, defined as the ratio of innovation sales to total...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005649144
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Innovation and Performance in Manufacturing Industries: A Comparison of the Nordic Countries
Lööf, Hans; Heshmati, Almas; Asplund, Rita; Nåås, … - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2001
The availability of new internationally-harmonized innovation survey data collected from OECD countries has created … model might work when the survey sampling and questionnaire are identical but the national data sets are estimated … separately. Findings from the micro-based data in Europe known as Community Innovation Survey (CIS) data were subsequently …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005649409