Over the last two decades privatization programs in different countries radically reduced the role of the State as a …'s principal-agent structure following privatization, and incentives to invest in R&D and to patent. We compare the pre and post … privatization R&D effort and patenting behavior of 35 companies that were fully or partially privatized in 9 European countries …

In this paper, we analyze the impact of privatization on the firms' R&D performance. We expect that, in the early … period after privatization, path dependencies still negatively affect the efficiency of R&D operations. We test our …

productivity. This paper is part of a smaller literature on the effects of training on direct measures of industrial productivity …. We analyse a panel of British industries between 1983 and 1996. Training information (and other individual productivity … use a variety of panel data techniques (including system GMM) to argue that training significantly boosts productivity …

The paper addresses the relevancy of networking activities and R&D as main drivers of productivity performance and … on productivity drivers and on complementarity between R&D and networking strategies, with respect to firm productivity … and process/product output innovation. R&D is a main driver of innovation and productivity, even without networking. This …

in relative supply and positively correlated both with the long run rate of productivity growth and with an index of …