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Comparing the Innovation Performance in Canadian, French and German Manufacturing Enterprises

Mohnen, Pierre; Therrien, Pierre - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2005

This paper compares pairwise the innovation performance of Canada with France and Germany, respectively. The comparison is based on two ordered probit models with sample selection, one where innovation is measured by the introduction of new-to-the firm products and one where it is measured by...

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Do Canadian Firms Respond to Fiscal Incentives to Research and Development?

Dagenais, Marcel; Mohnen, Pierre; Therrien, Pierre - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 1997

This study examines the effectiveness of R&D tax incentives using an unbalanced panel of 434 Canadian firms. Not all firms in the sample are R&D performers. A B-index summarizing the various tax incentives for R&D is constructed for each firm, taking into account individual ceilings in the use...

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The Protection of Innovations

Atallah, Gamal - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2004

This paper proposes a model where firms invest in secrecy to limit technological spillovers accruing to their competitors, in addition to investing in cost-reducing R&D. The main result of the paper is that increases in spillovers increase secrecy, suggesting that legal and strategic protection...

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Innovative Efforts as Determinants of Export Performance: The Case of Specialized Suppliers

Bourgault, Mario; Lefebvre, Élisabeth; Lefebvre, Louis A. - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 1995

This paper presents empirical evidence on the relationship between innovative efforts and performance on international markets for the specific case of small firms acting as specialized suppliers. In addition to tangible efforts such as R&D expenditures, intangible efforts are also considered....

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The Allocation of Resources to Cooperative and Noncooperative R&D

Atallah, Gamal - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2004

The precompetitive R&D literature has viewed cooperative and noncooperative R&D as substitutes. In this paper a more realistic approach is taken, where both cooperative and noncooperative R&D are performed in parallel. In the first stage firms determine the optimal investments in both types of...

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A General Equilibrium Analysis of the Evolution of the Canadian Service Productivity

Mohnen, Pierre; Raa, Thijs Ten - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 1997

This paper measures factor productivities (and hence total factor productivity growth) directly on the basis of the …

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Sources of Productivity Growth: Technology, Terms of Trade, and Preference Shifts

Mohnen, Pierre; Raa, Thijs Ten - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 1999

The standard measure of productivity growth is the Solow residual. Its evaluation requires data on factor input shares … face value what is supposed to be measured. In this paper we determine total factor productivity growth without recourse to … level of domestic final demand. The consequent measure of total factor productivity is shown to encompass not only the Solow …

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Using Innovation Surveys for Econometric Analysis

Mairesse, Jacques; Mohnen, Pierre - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2010

After presenting the history, the evolution and the content of innovation surveys, we discuss the characteristics of the data they contain and the challenge they pose to the analyst and the econometrician. We document the two uses that have been made of these data: the construction of...

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Product, Process and Organizational Innovation: Drivers, Complementarity and Productivity Effects

Polder, Michael; Leeuwen, George van; Mohnen, Pierre; … - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2010

, process and organizational innovation), which ultimately feeds into a productivity equation. We find that ICT investment and … product innovation in manufacturing. The strongest productivity effects are derived from organizational innovation. We find …

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Dynamic Models of R&D, Innovation and Productivity: Panel Data Evidence for Dutch and French Manufacturing

Raymond, Wladimir; Mairesse, Jacques; Mohnen, Pierre; … - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2013

This paper introduces dynamics in the R&D to innovation and innovation to productivity relationships, which have mostly … conditional mean of labor productivity: through an observed binary indicator, an observed intensity variable or through the … Community Innovation Survey. The results provide evidence of robust unidirectional causality from innovation to productivity and …

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