We compute rates of growth in labor productivity during the 1973-80 period for samples of individual manufacturing … contribution of such expenditures to productivity growth was about the same in both countries. Hence, the rather large differences … on the observed rates of productivity growth between the two countries can not be accounted for by differences in either …

This paper investigates changes in the output and productivity of research and development activities in Japanese … manufacturing firms over the 1980s and 1990s. Evidence from aggregate patent and R&D statistics and a micro-level analysis of R …&D productivity at the firm-level suggest that there has been a slowdown in the growth of Japanese research productivity in the 1990s …

motives to patent indicate that firms patent for reasons that often extend beyond directly profiting from a patented … motives for patenting include the prevention of rivals from patenting related inventions (i.e., patent blocking'), the use of … patents in negotiations and the prevention of suits. We find that firms commonly patent for different reasons in discrete …

manufacturing industries. The estimated elasticities of productivity with respect to Ramp;D capital are significant and plausible …

success from firm surveys along with the usual Ramp;D expenditures and productivity measures. We then apply the model to data … both process and product innovation. Both these kinds of innovation have a positive impact on firm's productivity …

The paper examines the size and productivity of total intangible capital relative to total tangible capital for a large …

A positive correlation between productivity and export market participation has been well documented in producer micro … investment activities, particularly investments in Ramp;D or new technology, that both raise productivity and increase the payoff … find a complex set of interactions between Ramp;D, exporting, and productivity. The self- selection of high productivity …

, and the effects of different investment profiles on total factor productivity growth on Dutch firm-level data. We estimate … an integrated model of investment profile adoption and total factor productivity growth. We find that the three …

) that has been modified to include ICT investment and R&D as the two main inputs into innovation and productivity. We find … that R&D and ICT are both strongly associated with innovation and productivity, with R&D being more important for … innovation, and ICT investment being more important for productivity. For the median firm, rates of return to both investments …

between firm productivity and R&D appears both strong and robust in the cross-sectional dimension of the data; it is less so …