TY  - JOUR
AU  - Griffith,Rachel
AU  - Huergo,Elena
AU  - Mairesse,Jacques
AU  - Peters,Bettina
TI  - Innovation and Productivity across Four European Countries
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 12722
PY  - 2006
Y2  - December 2006
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w12722
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w12722.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Rachel Griffith
IFS
7 Ridgmont Street
London WC1E 7AE
UK
E-Mail: rgriffith@ifs.org.uk

Elena Huergo
Universidad Complutense
Facultad CC. Económicas y Empresariales
Campus de Somosaguas
28223 Madrid - Spain
E-Mail: ehuergo@ccee.ucm.es

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

Bettina Peters
ZEW
Postfach 103443 D-68043 Mannheim
Germany
E-Mail: b.peters@zew.de
AB  - 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.
ER  -