Firm Size and Innovation in the Service Sector

Arbeitspapier

A rich literature links knowledge inputs with innovative outputs. However, most of what is known is restricted to manufacturing. This paper analyzes whether the three aspects involving innovative activity - R&D; innovative output; and productivity - hold for knowledge intensive services. Combining the models of Crepon et al. (1998) and of Ackerberg et al. (2015), allows for causal interpretation of the relationship between innovation output and labor productivity. We find that knowledge intensive services benefit from innovation activities in the sense that these activities causally increase their labor productivity. Moreover, the firm size advantage found for manufacturing in previous studies nearly disappears for knowledge intensive services.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 12035

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Firm Performance: Size, Diversification, and Scope ; Industry Studies: Manufacturing: General ; Industry Studies: Services: General ; Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives ; Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
• Thema: MSMEs ; R&D ; service sector ; innovation ; productivity ; entrepreneurship

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Audretsch, David ; Hafenstein, Marian ; Kritikos, Alexander S. ; Schiersch, Alexander
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
• (wo): Bonn
• (wann): 2018

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/193329
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ