examiners to identify the causal effect of a US patent grant on the subsequent export performance of Chinese firms. Successful … first-time patent applicants achieve significantly higher export growth, compared to otherwise similar first-time applicants … constraints or the promotion of follow-on innovation. …

knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a Solovian zone where wages increase with … productivity, to a Marxian zone where they paradoxically decline with productivity. This is because as consumption of a given good … more unevenly distributed than productivity, technical progress always increases inequality. Redistribution from profits to …

effects of labour standards on export performance and foreign direct investment flows. Overall, our empirical results suggest …

productivity of R&D resources in generating innovation (patenting) and productivity (TFP). While we find that knowledge diffusion …The diffusion of knowledge in the world generates positive externalities if knowledge flows increase the productivity … of R&D. Our work analyzes knowledge diffusion and knowledge externalities in generating innovation and in determining …

The paper proposes a simple equilibrium model of venture capital, entrepreneurship and innovation. Venture capitalists … productive and active VC industry boosts innovation driven growth. …

alleviating credit constraints for high productivity firms. After the reform, better access to credit allowed these firms to … across firms, thus raising aggregate productivity. …

' management competency is associated with a 7.5 percent improvement in sales productivity and a 29.2 increase in profitability … convenience of accessing a larger export market in the South. The gap persists even after controlling for known sources of …

exogenous to firms export performance. We find that innovation attributable to this variation leads to an increase of roughly 7 …Trade and growth theories predict a mutual causation of innovation and exports. We test empirically whether innovation … percentage points in the export share of German manufacturing firms. The evidence is robust to several alternative specifications …