The Link between Innovation and Productivity in Estonia’s Service Sectors
dc.contributor.author | Vahter, Priit | |
dc.contributor.author | Masso, Jaan | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-08-30T19:49:41Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-08-30T19:49:41Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2011-03-01 | |
dc.identifier.other | RePEc:wdi:papers:2011-1012 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/133027 | |
dc.description.abstract | The emerging literature on the characteristics of innovation processes in the service sector has paid relatively little attention to the links between innovation and productivity. In this paper we investigate how the innovation-productivity relationship differs across various subbranches of the service sector. For the analysis we use the CDM structural model consisting of equations for innovation expenditures, innovation output, productivity and exports. We use data from the community innovation surveys for Estonia. We show that innovation is associated with increased productivity in the service sector. The results indicate surprisingly that the effect of innovation on productivity is stronger in the less knowledge-intensive service sectors, despite the lower frequency of innovative activities and the results of earlier literature. Non-technological innovation only plays a positive role in some specifications, despite its expected importance especially among the service firms. An additional positive channel of the effects of innovation on productivity may function through increased exports. | |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | wp1012 | |
dc.subject | innovation | |
dc.subject | services | |
dc.subject | productivity | |
dc.subject.other | O31 | |
dc.subject.other | O33 | |
dc.subject.other | L80 | |
dc.title | The Link between Innovation and Productivity in Estonia’s Service Sectors | |
dc.type | Working Paper | |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Economics | |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Business | |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | William Davidson Institute | |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/133027/1/wp1012.pdf | |
dc.contributor.authoremail | p.vahter@bham.ac.uk | |
dc.owningcollname | William Davidson Institute (WDI) - Working Papers |
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