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analyzing the process, products, and impact of research. It grows from and engages the work of a diverse and vibrant community …. This paper situates the UMETRICS effort in the context of research evaluation and ongoing data infrastructure efforts in …, and teams offers dramatic possibilities for data linkage, the evaluation of research investments, and the development of …
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The literature has pointed to different causes to explain the productivity gap between Europe and United States in the last decades. This paper tests the hypothesis that the lower European productivity performance in comparison with the US can be explained not only by a lower level of corporate...
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The globalization of R&D activities has continued its growth path as companies are increasingly trying to capture knowledge and market opportunities internationally. The rapid evolution of national economies and the ways to conduct knowledge-intensive businesses has led researchers and analysts...
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Does regulation affect the pace and nature of innovation and if so, by how much? We build a tractable and quantifiable … sharp reduction in the firm's innovation response to exogenous demand shocks for firms just below the regulatory threshold …. We then quantitatively fit the parameters of the model to the data, finding that innovation at the macro level is about 5 …
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the U.S. Air Force Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program that transitioned from "Conventional topics," which …When investing in research and development (R&D), institutions must decide whether to take a top-down approach … - soliciting a particular technology - or a bottom-up approach in which innovators suggest ideas. This paper examines a reform to …
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highlighted within the UK Government's framework for Science & Technology. -- Cooperation for innovation ; technological … innovation by combining the analysis of both micro and meso levels, i.e. the level of the firm and of the geographical region …. Our findings, based on the Fourth UK Community Innovation Survey (CIS), provide new insights regarding the relationship …
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We estimate the effects of technology investments on the demand for skilled workers using longitudinally integrated … unobservable components within each business for each year from 1992 to 1997. We measure technology using variables from the Annual … between advanced technology and skill in a cross-sectional analysis of businesses in both sectors. The more comprehensive …
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Defensive innovations in developed countries can explain the empirical phenomenon that openness towards trade with less-developed countries does not necessarily induce a substantial increase in the wage differential and trade volumes. Building on step-by-step innovations as introduced by Aghion...
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We analyze the link between R&D, innovation, and productivity in MSMEs with a special focus on micro firms with fewer … the probability of reporting innovation, with a larger effect size for product than for process innovations. Moreover …, micro firms benefit in a comparable way from innovation processes as larger firms, as they are similarly able to increase …
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We study how profit taxation affects plants' R&D spending and innovation activities. Relying on geocoded survey panel …
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