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Mapping the two faces of R&D: productivity growth in a panel of OECD industries

Griffith, Rachel; Redding, Stephen; Reenen, John Van - Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) - 2000

Many writers have claimed that R&D has two 'faces'. In addition to the conventional role of stimulating innovation, R … important in this catch up process as well as stimulating innovation directly. Trade, by contrast, plays a more modest role in …

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How special is the special relationship? Using the impact of US R&D spillovers on UK firms as a test of technology sourcing

Griffith, Rachel; Harrison, Rupert; Reenen, John Van - Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) - 2004

How much does US-based R&D benefit other countries and through what mechanisms? We test the 'technology sourcing' hypothesis that foreign research labs located on US soil tap into US R&D spillovers and improve home country productivity. Using panels of UK and US firms matched to patent data we...

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Measuring and Explaining Management Practices in Italy

Bloom, Nick; Sadun, Raffaella; Reenen, John Van - In: Rivista di Politica Economica 98 (2008) 2, pp. 15-56

We use an innovative survey tool to collect management practice data from more than 900 medium sized manufacturing firms across Europe and the US. Our measures of managerial practices are strongly associated with several measures of firm level performance. Management practices display...

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