-producing country such as the U.S. is associated with a 0.15% lower level of productivity. Second, technological knowledge has become … more global over the sample period. As a determinant of productivity, foreign R&D has significantly gained in importance …

effect of spillovers on research productivity of firms exceeds the structural effect because it includes an active learning …

countries matters for productivity, because a country that imports primarily from technological leaders receives more technology … trade patterns in determining technology flows that affect productivity by using industry level data for machinery goods … imports and productivity in eight OECD countries between 1970-91. First evidence that these countries benefit more from …

This paper presents a comparative analysis of productivity growth in the U.S. and Japanese electrical machinery … industries in the postwar period. This industry has experienced rapid growth in output and productivity and high rates of capital … inputs as well as the determinants of productivity growth in the U.S. and Japanese electrical machinery industry. The …

We compute rates of growth in labor productivity during the 1973-80 period for samples of individual manufacturing … contribution of such expenditures to productivity growth was about the same in both countries. Hence, the rather large differences … on the observed rates of productivity growth between the two countries can not be accounted for by differences in either …

is assumed to differ in productivity according to a parametric function of R&D effort embodied in that vintage of capital …&D expenditures at Bell Laboratories and the improvements in the productivity of specific capital inputs which are due to those R … growing over time. In addition,the rate of increase in the productivity of capital inputs has risen over time. The model fails …

privately financed as a fraction of total). The results indicate that R&D continued to contribute to productivity growth in U … that while federally financed R&D expenditures did have a positive effect on measured productivity growth of these firms …

position variables and the potential spilover pool in explaining R&D intensity, patent productivity and TFP growth is explored … effects are significant in explaining patent productivity. I cannot distinguish between the two effects in explaining TFP … firms do more R&D themselves, they produce more patents per R&D dollar, and their productivity grows faster, even …

between firm productivity and R&D appears both strong and robust in the cross-sectional dimension of the data; it is less so …

This paper presents the results of a study of productivity growth and R&D in the 1970s using data on narrowly defined … the recent past. The results suggest a significant relationship between R&D and the growth of productivity; in versions … using total factor productivity as the dependent variable, the estimated rate of return to R&D investment is about 20 …