Recent studies have documented extensive heterogeneity in firm performance within countries, and innovation has been … found as an important determinant. This paper addresses the issue of innovation firm performance across countries. A growing … number of national firm level studies on the innovation-productivity link have been conducted using new internationally …

(MNE) firms and concentration in specific places due to agglomerative forces. First, innovation ideas arrive at a faster … speed to firms with past experience of innovation activities and with established export market contacts. Second …, innovativeness is strongly dependent on corporate and ownership structure. Third, the returns to innovation efforts are positively …

-level Community Innovation Survey (CIS) data set to consider the economy in the period preceding the collapse of its financial system …

innovation activities captured by patent applications, firm characteristics, international trade and the regional milieu. …

Recent studies have documented extensive heterogeneity in firm performance within countries, and innovation has been … found as an important determinant. This paper addresses the issue of innovation firm performance across countries. A growing … number of national firm level studies on the innovation-productivity link have been conducted using new internationally …

innovation, return on R&D and economic performance. The study, based on 1,907 firm level observations, essentially compare a … functional urban region with innovation-proximity characteristics. The paper examines systematically the influence of location … significantly larger likelihood than other firms of being engaged in innovation activities. Second, among innovative firms, the R …