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Business services, innovation and sectoral growth

Business services, innovation and sectoral growth (416.87 KB)

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By integrating different industry level data sources (OECD Input–Output Tables, OECD Structural Analysis Database and EUROSTAT CIS) for a selected number of European countries, this paper aims at assessing the economic impact of business services (BS) on client industries. Compared to previous research, the specific value added of this contribution consists of having taken into account both the strength and innovative content of the linkages between BS and user industries as well as to have looked at different mechanisms through which the use of BS inputs affects the performances of user industries. The results of the empirical analysis show that BS have a positive impact on the innovation performances of client industries and, via this channel, also on their sectoral value added growth. Moreover we find a positive effect of BS on the rate of growth of client industries that is not mediated by the introduction of new products and services. bZR中山大学中国第三产业研究中心