We examine the extent to which developing countries that do little, if any research and development themselves benefit … knowledge' from its cumulative R&D activities, a developing country can boost its productivity by importing a larger variety of …

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 …

In this paper we: (1) estimate the effects of international R&D spillovers on total factor productivity growth of the …

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 …

; 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 …

productivity gains for domestic firms. The size of FDI spillovers is economically important, accounting for about 14% of … productivity growth in U.S. firms between 1987 and 1996. In addition, there is some evidence for imports-related spillovers, but it …

&D investment: (1) Are there diminishing returns to inventive activities? (2) What is the relationship between R&D and productivity … between R&D expenditures and growth of output or total factor productivity. The relation is pervasive, though the magnitudes …, there is evidence that R&D as a factor of production affects not only productivity growth but also the demand for …