-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 shows that local productivity spillovers propagate throughout the economy through the plant-level networks … only raise the productivity of local plants but also of distant plants hundreds of miles away, which belong to multi …-region firms that are exposed to the local productivity spillover through one of their plants. To quantify the significance of …

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 …

manufacturing industries. The estimated elasticities of productivity with respect to R&D capital are significant and plausible, both …

characteristics. The results suggest that institutional differences are important determinants of total factor productivity and that …