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With ever increasing global integration, productivity improvements depend not only on in-house innovative efforts, but on those of international partners as well. This paper explores the impact of foreign R\&D on productivity and technical efficiency of countries by considering three major...
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use the Jaffe industry weight matrix, based on the construction of technological vectors for each firm, where its patents …
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This paper assesses the impact of R&D efforts on production in the North and Centre-South of Italy by using a panel of 1203 manufacturing firms over the period 1998-2003. The estimations are based on a nonlinear translog production function augmented by a measure of R&D spillovers. This measure...
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This paper examines the role research and development (R&D) plays in technology progress for a sample of OECD and Asian economies from 1980 to 1995. An empirical model is estimated which relates total factor productivity to domestic and foreign R&D activity, trade, and information technology and...
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The study of the relationships between innovation and the competitiveness of industries is an important topic for both, academic research and economic policy. The huge economics literature flourished in the last couple of decades on the subject broadly falls into two distinct research...
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The aim of this paper is to explore the impact of intra- and inter-industry spillover components on productivity of large International firms. We use data from all EU R&D investment scoreboards editions issued every year until 2011 by the JRC-IPTS (scoreboards). The analysis is based upon a new...
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This study contributes to existing literature on firms’ innovative activity examining the influence of both internal firms’ physical and R&D capital, and external national and international knowledge spillovers. The paper presents a cross national analysis of United States, Japan and Europe...
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Starting from the failure of the R&D-patents traditional relationship, when time-series and/or within industry … directions. Firstly, it perform a Granger causality test on the theoretical presumption of a reverse patents→R&D link as an … explanation of the failure of the traditional relationship. Second, assuming the reverse patents-R&D causality, we test and …
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technological progress to GDP in Poland. In addition, causality from number of patents to employment and from employment to R …&D outlays is found, which indicates causality from patents to R&D expenditure. The robustness of these results is also approved …
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In this note, we explore the different implications of patent breadth and R&D subsidies on economic growth and endogenous market structure in a Schumpeterian growth model. We find that these two policy instruments have the same positive effect on economic growth when the model exhibits...
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