the productivity of firms and the existence of possible complementarities between these different forms of innovation …

This paper proposes a framework to account for innovation similar to the usual accounting framework in production … analysis and a measure of innovativity comparable to that of total factor productivity. This innovation accounting framework is … illustrated using micro-aggregated firm data from the first Community Innovation Surveys (CIS1) for seven European countries …

innovation, licensing of technology, and training of employees fail to have any impact; only foreign ownership, ISO certification …

After presenting the history, the evolution and the content of innovation surveys, we discuss the characteristics of … have been made of these data: the construction of scoreboards for monitoring innovation and the scholarly analysis of … various issues related to innovation. In particular, we review the questions examined and the results obtained regarding the …