Innovation and Productivity across Four European Countries / Rachel Griffith, Elena Huergo, Jacques Mairesse, Bettina Peters.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Griffith, Rachel.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Huergo, Elena.

Mairesse, Jacques.

Peters, Bettina.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w12722.

NBER working paper series no. w12722

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2006.

Summary:

This paper compares the role innovation plays in productivity across the four European countries France, Germany, Spain and the UK using firm-level data from the internationally harmonized Community Innovation Surveys (CIS3). Despite a considerable number of national firm-level studies analysing this relationship, cross-country comparisons using micro data are still rare. We apply a structural model that describes the link between R&D expenditure, innovation output and productivity (CDM model). Our econometric results suggest that overall the systems driving innovation and productivity are remarkably similar across these four countries, although we also find interesting differences, particularly in the variation in productivity that is associated with more or less innovative activities.

Notes:

Print version record

December 2006.