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higher levels of innovation and lower levels of secrecy. An increase in the size of the market, a reduction in the cost of … produits est associé avec davantage d'innovation et moins de protection. Une augmentation dans la taille du marché, une …
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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 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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This paper introduces dynamics in the R&D to innovation and innovation to productivity relationships, which have mostly … Community Innovation Survey. The results provide evidence of robust unidirectional causality from innovation to productivity and … of stronger persistence in productivity than in innovation. Dans ce papier, nous introduisons de la dynamique dans le …
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, 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 …We propose a model where both R&D and ICT investment feed into a system of three innovation output equations (product …
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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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total factor productivity (TFP) in the Quebec manufacturing sector during the 1985-88 period. Our results show that … productivity growth, while the presence of mandatory prevention programs and of fines for infractions to OSH rules have led to an … increase in productivity growth. Interestingly, this is, to our knowledge, the first result showing that OSH regulation may …
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This paper measures factor productivities (and hence total factor productivity growth) directly on the basis of the …
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This paper investigates the comparability of the 1999 Canadian Survey of Innovation with the European Community … Innovation Surveys for 1997/1998 (CIS2). Four European countries are compared to Canada: France, Germany, Ireland, and Spain … are made to harmonize the two datatsets and make them comparable as much as possible. Different innovation indicators …
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analysis and a measure of innovativity comparable to that of total factor productivity. This innovation accounting framework is … illustrated using micro-aggregated firm data from the first Community Innovation Surveys (CIS1) for seven European countries … communautaire sur l'innovation (CIS1) portant sur l'année 1992. Sur la base d'un modèle Tobit généralisé et en mesurant l'innovation …
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