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Innovation in China: the rise of Chinese inventors in the production of knowledge

Griffith, Rachel; Miller, Helen - Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) - 2011

In 2010 China was the world's fourth largest filer of patent applications. This followed a decade of unprecedented increases in investment in skills and Research and Development. If current trends continue China could rank first in the very near future. We provide evidence that the growth in...

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Geographic proximity and firm-university innovation linkages: evidence from Great Britain

Abramovsky, Laura; Simpson, Helen - Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) - 2009

We investigate evidence for spatially mediated knowledge transfer from university research. We examine whether firms locate their R&D labs near universities, and whether those that do are more likely to co-operate with, or source knowledge from universities. We find that pharmaceutical firms...

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Employment protection legislation, multinational firms and innovation

Griffith, Rachel; Macartney, Gareth - Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) - 2010

The theoretical effects of labour regulations such as employment protection legislation (EPL) on innovation is … technologically advanced innovation. In this paper we find empirical evidence that both effects are at work - multinational … innovation in countries with low EPL. …

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Employment, innovation and productivity: evidence from Italian microdata

Hall, Bronwyn; Lotti, Francesca; Mairesse, Jacques - Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) - 2006

presents some empirical evidence on the effects of innovation on employment growth and therefore on firms' productivity with … stemming from process innovation. The sources of employment growth during the period are split equally between the net … contribution of product innovation and the net contribution from sales growth of old products. However, the contribution of product …

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Mapping the two faces of R&D: productivity growth in a panel of OECD industries

Griffith, Rachel; Redding, Stephen; Reenen, John Van - Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) - 2000

Many writers have claimed that R&D has two 'faces'. In addition to the conventional role of stimulating innovation, R … important in this catch up process as well as stimulating innovation directly. Trade, by contrast, plays a more modest role in …

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The location of innovative activity in Europe

Abramovsky, Laura; Griffith, Rachel; Macartney, Gareth; … - Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) - 2008

In this paper we use new data to describe how firms from 15 European countries organise their innovative activities. The data matches firm level accounting data with information on the patents that those firms and their subsidiaries have applied for at the European Patents Office. We describe...

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ICT, corporate restructuring and productivity

Abramovsky, Laura; Griffith, Rachel - Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) - 2009

Stronger productivity growth in the US than the EU over the late 1990s is widely attributed to faster, more widespread adoption of information and communication technology (ICT). The literature has emphasised complementarities in production between ICT and internal restructuring as an important...

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University research and the location of business R&D

Abramovsky, Laura; Harrison, Rupert; Simpson, Helen - Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) - 2007

We investigate the relationship between the location of private sector R&D labs and university research departments in Great Britain. We combine establishment-level data on R&D activity with information on levels and changes in research quality from the Research Assessment Exercise. The...

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The long-term educational cost of war: evidence from landmine contamination in Cambodia

Merrouche, Ouarda - Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) - 2006

The economic impact of war may be visible in the long run and particularly its impact on human capital. I use unique district level data on landmine contamination intensity in Cambodia combined with individual survey data to evaluate the long run cost of Cambodia's 30 years war (1970-1998) on...

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How special is the special relationship? Using the impact of US R&D spillovers on UK firms as a test of technology sourcing

Griffith, Rachel; Harrison, Rupert; Reenen, John Van - Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) - 2004

How much does US-based R&D benefit other countries and through what mechanisms? We test the 'technology sourcing' hypothesis that foreign research labs located on US soil tap into US R&D spillovers and improve home country productivity. Using panels of UK and US firms matched to patent data we...

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