persist. Private spending on innovation is very low and Russia underperforms in terms of scientific outputs and patents …. Support for low-tech innovation and technology adoption, especially among SMEs is narrow because of a bias towards large and …

. Fostering competition by removing regulatory barriers and improving public procurement would help. In addition, innovation …

and carefully-designed innovation policies. …

This paper examines the links between innovation and productivity in service enterprises. For this purpose, we use … micro data from the Community Innovation Survey 2008 in Germany, Ireland and the United Kingdom, and estimate an augmented … structural model. Our results indicate that innovation in service enterprises is linked to higher productivity. In all three …