Ethnic inventors play important roles in US innovation systems, especially in high-tech regions like Silicon Valley. Do … ‘ethnicity-innovation’ channels exist elsewhere? This paper investigates, using a new panel of UK patents microdata. In theory …, ethnicity might affect positively innovation via ‘star’ migrants, network externalities from co-ethnic groups, or production …

efficiency; provides further insight into why Open Source Software is a successful model of innovation and development in digital …

stylised facts are considered: globalisation, information technology, and competition. Globalisation and information technology …Studies of firm-level data have shown that there is a huge dispersion of productivity across firms even when industries … productive. The formers’ convergence could therefore constitute an important part of productivity growth at the macroeconomic …

We study the productivity of US owned plants in the UK. Using a new dataset that identifies foreign and domestic MNEs …

This paper examines the relationship between foreign ownership and productivity, paying particular attention to two … manufacturing, before presenting new evidence using establishment-level data on production, service and R&D activity for the United … takeover is more prevalent than greenfield investment. We find that British multinationals have lower levels of labour …

aggregation problem introduces a bias into standard measures of firm productivity. We develop a theoretical model of heterogeneous … in product mix across firms, and the implications of this bias for identifying firm and industry responses to exogenous … policy shocks such as deregulation. More generally, we demonstrate that product switching gives rise to a richer set of …

of knowledge and technology in economic growth. …

growth and major strands of the empirical literatures on R&D, productivity growth, and productivity convergence. Starting … foundations for the reduced-form equations for Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth frequently estimated empirically using … industry-level data. R&D affects both innovation and the assimilation of others’ discoveries (‘absorptive capacity’). Long …

panel of industries in 17 countries from 1993-2007. We find that industrial robots increased both labor productivity and ….37 percentage points. We also find that robots increased both wages and total factor productivity. While robots had no significant …