This paper is an attempt to assess the existence and magnitude of local research spillovers in France. We rely on the … manufacturing industries. The estimated elasticities of productivity with respect to Ramp;D capital are significant and plausible …

total factor productivity and that they impact the degree of Ramp;D spillovers …

that their functional form of how foreign R&D affects domestic productivity via imports is probably incorrect. We provide …

Investment in research and development (R&D) affects a country's total factor productivity. Recently new theories of … total factor productivity of its trade partners. Following these theoretical developments we estimate the effects of a … country's R&D capital stock and the R&D capital stocks of its trade partners on the country's total factor productivity. We …

; Porter, 1990). In this paper we make use of the geographic distribution of the research activities of major global … and empirical approach allow us to make advances on two dimensions. First, by focusing on spillovers in research … productivity (as opposed to manufacturing productivity), we build closely on the theoretical literature on spillovers that suggests …

effect of spillovers on research productivity of firms exceeds the structural effect because it includes an active learning … expenditures and internal research expenditures. The findings are consistent with the view that learning expenditures transmit the …

This paper describes flows of basic research through the U.S. economy and explores their implications for scientific … basic research flows than was previously available. Basic research flows are high within petrochemicals and drugs and within … limited to software and communications. In general, basic research flows are more concentrated within scientific fields than …

This chapter reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and innovation. We first describe the …

About 20 percent of the gross investment expenditures of U.S. manufacturing firms is expenditures on research and … that was developed within the Productivity Program of the NBER, we investigate the differential responses of these two … overall profitability of the firm, and one to the "productivity" of R&D. In the empirical estimates, we find that these two …