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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
<p><p>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...</p></p>
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009294030
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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008465981
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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
<p>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...</p>
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005547917
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005547918