Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/74938 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
LICOS Discussion Paper No. 230
Publisher: 
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, Leuven
Abstract: 
Using firm-level innovation data for a large sample of Slovenian firms in the period 1996-2002, the paper finds surprising results that innovation is not benefitting all firms. We find that only manufacturing firms with below average productivity growth (the lowest four deciles) are likely to experience significant benefits from successful innovation, while faster growing firms do not extract any additional benefits from innovation. This evidence demonstrates how innovation can affect the observed convergence of firms in tfirms of productivity in the manufacturing sector.
Subjects: 
research and development
innovation
knowledge spillovers
productivity growth
JEL: 
D24
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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