Looking in more detail at the determinants of manufacturing innovation emphasises the
importance of R&D and backwards supply chain linkages as sources of new knowledge for …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse differences in the drivers of firm innovation
performance across sectors. The literature often makes the assumption that firms in different …

It is increasingly recognized that the production of new products and the development and
diffusion of new production and organizational techniques are central to the competitiveness …

This paper analyses the relationship between business performance, R&D expenditures
and innovation output. It utilises the second Community Innovation Survey (CIS2), a large …

We use matched innovation survey and Census data to investigate the link between
innovation and productivity growth and the factors that are linked with high innovation. Our …

Executive summary The theory of economic growth postulates that innovation is a primary
source of a country's long run productivity growth. Innovation is the outcome of firms' efforts …

Innovation is best understood broadly, to include anything new in the way a firm operates, in
the goods or services it produces, in the processes it uses to do so or in the way it organises …

Innovation determines productivity and productivity determines real incomes. Governments
can affect this process of change via rigorous, evidence-based industry policy. However …

There is an extensive literature on innovation, investigating both its determinants and its
contribution to firm performance (measured as productivity growth or as market value). Since …

Innovation is central to ensuring economic growth and improvements in social welfare. The
pressures for economies to innovate have increased in response to global changes in the …