Using a panel of individual researchers at the KU Leuven, Belgium, we analyze the impact of a range of productivity drivers on research performance at the separate quantiles of the productivity distribution. We estimate a correlated random-effects quantile regression model, accounting for...

We examine the impact of international and domestic technology transfers on firms' productivity performance in a sample of 448 Belgian innovating firms during 2003--2006. Technology transfers may occur through R&D contracting, purchase of licenses and know-how, purchase of specialized machinery,...