TY - JOUR AU - Mairesse,Jacques AU - Mohnen,Pierre TI - The Importance of R&D for Innovation: A Reassessment Using French Survey Data JF - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series VL - No. 10897 PY - 2004 Y2 - November 2004 UR - http://www.nber.org/papers/w10897 L1 - http://www.nber.org/papers/w10897.pdf N1 - Author contact info: Jacques Mairesse CREST-INSEE 15, Boulevard Gabriel PERI 92245 MALAKOFF CEDEX FRANCE Tel: 33-1-41-17-35-50 Fax: 33-1-41-17-76-34 E-Mail: mairesse@ensae.fr Pierre Mohnen UNU-MERIT Maastricht University P.O. Box 616 6200 MD Maastricht Netherlands E-Mail: p.mohnen@maastrichtuniversity.nl AB - This paper compares the contribution of R&D to innovation in terms of the various innovation output measures provided by the third Community Innovation Survey (CIS 3) for French manufacturing firms and in terms of accounting for inter-industry innovation differences. ER -