This may be why a relatively large number of very small firms are not growing,[10] and the resulting resource https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/key/date/2019/html/ecb.sp190907~81df41228e.en.html  1/4  9/9/2019  Growth and competitiveness in the euro area  misallocation may contribute to the productivity gap across countries.
 Some see the decline in the rate of radical innovation as a key factor in the global decline of productivity growth, simply because new ideas are becoming harder to find.