This study investigates the role of international spillovers in generating productivity gains for a panel of 24 OECD … related to R&D and human capital variables, which contribute significantly to productivity. …

domestic technology diffusion. I identify four de facto research centers in China and investigate whether the effect of R …’ productivity gains from R&D spillovers from the research cluster decline with (i) increasing geographic distance away from the …

the basis of industrial activities, employment size, capital base, pattern of linkages, and productivity levels and, (ii … credit, training, skill formation and marketing to encourage more entry of women. …

massive variation of agricultural labor productivity across countries. The development of credit markets enables more agents …

In this paper we analyze the relationship between R&D spillovers and productivity. To this aim, we use data from 9th … results provide evidence of higher productivity in R&D intensive industries and this can be interpreted as the signal of the …

We develop a simple estimator for production functions in the presence of endogenous productivity change that allows us … to retrieve productivity and its relationship with R&D at the firm level. Our dynamic investment model can be viewed as a … generalization of the knowledge capital model (Griliches 1979) that has remained a cornerstone of the productivity literature for …

Many empirical studies have confirmed the positive impact of innovation on productivity at the firm level. The focus … on the other. To investigate the effect of different types of innovations on produc-tivity, we propose a model with two … a productivity equation. We find that ICT is an im-portant driver of innovation in both manufacturing and services …

, process and organizational innovation), which ultimately feeds into a productivity equation. We find that ICT investment and … product innovation in manufacturing. The strongest productivity effects are derived from organizational innovation. We find …

Recent researches for developing countries suggest knowledge generating activates is no silver bullet for productivity … first stage, we examine the relative productivity performance of R&D vis-à-vis non- R&D. Subsequently, we construct two … productivity edge over non- R&D firms. Regression results based on the growth accounting framework suggest that R&D intensity has a …

The paper explores a novel extension of the R&D-productivity literature. It puts forward an empirical model where … sectoral productivity growth is related to the characteristics of technological regimes and a set of other industry … show, in particular, that sectoral differences in productivity growth in Europe are related to cross-industry differences …