This paper explores the relationship between FDI spillovers and productivity in
manufacturing firms in five European transition countries. The novelty of our approach lies in …

The goal of this paper is to (re) assess the relationship between knowledge intensive
business services (KIBS) and the economic growth. Taking into account various conflicting …

By integrating different industry level data sources (OECD Input–Output Tables, OECD
Structural Analysis Database and EUROSTAT CIS) for a selected number of European …

Castellani D., Meliciani V. and Mirra L. The determinants of inward foreign direct investment
in business services across European regions, Regional Studies. The role of forward …

This study explores the driving factors for attracting Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflow in
the Saudi Arabian economy in two stages. First, it applies a general to specific approach to …

This paper proposes a framework for understanding key aspects of service innovation in
developing economies, based on four dimensions: first, the integration of services in …

In this chapter, we examine service innovation in the public sector. We outline the
characteristics of service innovation and the conditions that in the public sector differ from …

This paper investigates the contribution provided by the Business service sector (BS) to the
international competitiveness of manufacturing industries that acquire and use intangible …

After several decades of planned economy and manufacturing-oriented economic policy,
during the last 20 years the Visegrád Four (V4) countries (Poland, Hungary, the Czech …

Although the increasing prosperity of national economies all around the world is tightly
associated with the growth of service industries (Schettkat and Yocarini 2006), extant …