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Working Paper #2025-003

Innovation and productivity: the recent empirical literature and the state of the art

Jacques Mairesse, Pierre Mohnen & Ad Notten #2025-003 PDF

This paper reviews the empirical work that has been done over the period 2013-2023 on the topic of innovation and productivity. A visual graph based on keywords shows the main areas that have been investigated. The literature review is organized around the way the link between innovation and productivity has been analyzed, the data that have been used, and the evidence that has been obtained. The paper ends with suggestions of future research on the topic.

Keywords
  • literature review
  • productivity
  • innovation
  • micro data
JEL codes
  • D24
  • O30
  • O31
  • O32

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Mairesse, J., Mohnen, P., & Notten, A. (2025). Innovation and productivity: the recent empirical literature and the state of the art (UNU-MERIT Working Paper No. 2025-003). UNU-MERIT. https://doi.org/10.53330/AEUN4217

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