efficiency of countries by considering three major channels of embodied and disembodied spillovers, namely trade, foreign direct … behind productivity and technical progress, while the effects of FDI- and patent-related spillovers are significantly smaller …With ever increasing global integration, productivity improvements depend not only on in-house innovative efforts, but …

economies from 1980 to 1995. An empirical model is estimated which relates total factor productivity to domestic and foreign R …&D activity, trade, and information technology and telecommunications (ITT). Model estimates confirm a positive relationship … between national productivity and R&D activity exists in the long run. Further, the benefits of R&D can spillover countries …

between trade and productivity. We illustrate that both the scale effect and the flourish of entrepreneurial talent due to …This paper establishes a crucial link between international trade and local organization of production. By using the … standard Heckscher-Ohlin-Samuelson model we show that international trade promotes fragmentation, entrepreneurship and …

international diffusion through trade. Fitting the model to data on innovation, productivity, and trade in varieties, I find that … most of the growth-imports correlation is explained by these two mechanisms. I also find that the trade channel has been …

&D has a statistically significant positive impact on own-industry output per person, suggesting it increases productivity … certain industries positively affects output per person in the rest of the economy, i.e. it generates positive spillovers …. There is no evidence of positive spillovers from publicly provided R&D. …

global performance of economy, the productivity gains and as a consequence the levels of economical and employment growth …