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Innovation and Productivity: An Update

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This paper reviews the existing evidence regarding the effects of technological and non-technological innovations on the productivity of firms and the existence of possible complementarities between these different forms of innovation.

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  1. Maastricht University and UNU-MERIT, Maastricht, The Netherlands

    Pierre Mohnen

  2. Maastricht University, UNU-MERIT, University of California, Berkeley, USA

    Bronwyn H. Hall

  3. NBER, USA

    Bronwyn H. Hall

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This paper was in part produced as part of the SCIFI-GLOW Collaborative Project supported by the European Commission’s Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development, under the Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities theme (Contract no. SSH7-CT-2008-217436). We thank Marco Vivarelli and Ender Demir for their valuable suggestions and comments.

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Mohnen, P., Hall, B.H. Innovation and Productivity: An Update. Eurasian Bus Rev 3, 47–65 (2013). https://doi.org/10.14208/BF03353817

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