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This paper presents characteristics of firms that employ advanced manufacturing technology (AMT), explores the pattern of adoption of such technology, and traces the effects of adoption on the evolution of employment and productivity. The study uses linked firm-level data on production, factor...
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This paper studies the links between productivity, innovation and research at the firm level. We introduce three new … features: (i) A structural model that explains productivity by innovation output, and innovation output by research investment … of firms engage in research activities and/or apply for patents; productivity, innovation and research are endogenously …
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between innovation inputs and outputs. The regression analysis shows that the sales due to process innovations are … employment of innovation inputs is necessary. …
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final technology. This myopic behavior may reduce both welfare and the speed of innovation. …
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the innovation theory of Industrial Organization. In a two-industry model we formalize the effects of R …
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This paper considers a three-stage game of a differentiated oligopoly: firms first make their entry decisions, then they choose production technologies and in the third stage of the game they decide product prices. The technology choice can be understood as selecting one from a pool of those...
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. However,given that the sources of innovation (inducement mechanisms) differ between firms according to principal sector of … specialisation patterns. However, the importance differs according to the mode of innovation in each type of sector. …
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, turnover growth is positively associated with firms' size, process innovation, product innovation and organisational changes …. In contrast, marketing innovation does not considerably affect Italian SMEs growth. When restricting our focus to a sub …, among innovative firms, process innovation and organisational changes are, by far, the most influential innovating …
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The impact of technological change upon gross investment has been relatively ignored. Building upon the foundations of the analysis of technological diffusion, an empirical model of gross investment is constructed that takes due account of technological change. This model is then tested upon a...
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In endogenous growth theory models have either increasing or constant ranges of product variety. Developments in modem biotechnology however show cases of increasing, decreasing or constant ranges of product variants. We present a simple endogenous growth model allowing for all of these three...
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