Many governments wish to assess the quality of their universities. A prominent example is the UK's new Research … imperfectly-observed importance of the research). Our study should not be interpreted as the argument that only mechanistic …

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 …&D investment into productivity gains. The proposed microeconometric estimates are based on a unique longitudinal database covering …

2007-2012 using a survey of employers, such as universities, institutions of applied higher education and research … view, assumes significant growth in research funding, which the respondents mostly did not believe would occur, despite it …

research has become much more internationally oriented. In this paper we document changes in the structure of research and …. While higher education started to grow substantially around 1960, only a few decades later, research and higher education … transformation is most clearly revealed in the change of language used in research from the national language, Latin, German and …

larger productivity gains from trade liberalization than previously thought. …

Subsidized research joint ventures (RJVs) between public research institutions and industry have become increasingly … significant effects on value added or labor productivity. We further show that these overall results are primarily driven by firms …

rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT …-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some limited support for more rapid productivity growth in IT … expectations, is that output contracts in IT-intensive industries relative to the rest of manufacturing. Productivity increases …