on the factors behind the productivity gap between Atlantic Canada and Canada in the context of the manufacturing sector …. A number of possible factors contributing to the Atlantic Canada-Canada manufacturing productivity gap are examined … Atlantic Canada-Canada manufacturing productivity gap, namely less innovative effort, particularly in high-tech industries …

This paper analyzes differences in R&D spending and in the impact of R&D on productivity between German and UK firms …

" hypothesis that foreign research labs located on US soil tap into US R&D spillovers and improve home country productivity. Using … firms’ Total Factor Productivity would have been at least 5% lower in 2000 (about $14bn) in the absence of the US R&D growth …

inventions. The reason is that any uniform patent life provides excessive incentives to do R&D to the low productivity firms and … insufficient incentives to the high productivity firms. Such a differentiated scheme is implementable through renewal fees, which … depends on key features of the economic environment, such as the degree of heterogeneity in R&D productivity across firms, the …