TY  - JOUR
AU  - Mohnen,Pierre
AU  - Mairesse,Jacques
AU  - Dagenais,Marcel
TI  - Innovativity: A Comparison Across Seven European Countries
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 12280
PY  - 2006
Y2  - June 2006
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w12280
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w12280.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Pierre Mohnen
UNU-MERIT
Maastricht University
P.O. Box 616
6200 MD Maastricht
Netherlands
E-Mail: p.mohnen@maastrichtuniversity.nl

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
M2  - featured in NBER digest on 2006-06-05
AB  - This paper proposes a framework to account for innovation similar to the usual accounting framework in production analysis and a measure of innovativity comparable to that of total factor productivity. This innovation accounting framework is illustrated using micro-aggregated firm data from the first Community Innovation Surveys (CIS1) for seven European countries: Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and Italy for the year 1992. Based on the estimation of a generalized Tobit model and measuring innovation as the share of total sales due to improved or new products, it compares the propensity to innovate, and the innovation intensity conditional and unconditional on being innovative, across the seven countries and low- and high-tech manufacturing sectors. Even with relatively few explanatory variables our innovation framework already accounts for sizeable differences in country innovation intensity. It also shows that differences in innovativity across countries can be nonetheless very large.
ER  -