the differences in firm characteristics per se. Removing distortions could raise EU aggregate productivity by 40 percent …

). Governments in Europe and North America have adopted policies to promote the formation of such consortia, motivated less by … measure the impact of participation on the ex-post research productivity of the firm. We are able to find evidence that … frequent participation in these consortia has a positive impact on research expenditure and research productivity. These …

productivity. We investigate these phenomena further by examining the relationship between plant-level productivity and firm …-level R&D. We find that (1) the productivity-enhancing effects of parent firm R&D are diminished by geographic distance from … the research lab and `technological' distance between the product-field focus of the R&D and the plants; (2) productivity …

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 …

This paper presents estimates of the productivity and factor bias effects of interindustry Ramp;D spillovers for five …

-producing country such as the U.S. is associated with a 0.15% lower level of productivity. Second, technological knowledge has become … more global over the sample period. As a determinant of productivity, foreign R&D has significantly gained in importance …

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

position variables and the potential spilover pool in explaining R&D intensity, patent productivity and TFP growth is explored … effects are significant in explaining patent productivity. I cannot distinguish between the two effects in explaining TFP … firms do more R&D themselves, they produce more patents per R&D dollar, and their productivity grows faster, even …