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success from firm surveys along with the usual R&D expenditures and productivity measures. We then apply the model to data on … process and product innovation. Both these kinds of innovation have a positive impact on firm's productivity, especially …
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Measuring the private returns to R&D requires knowledge of its private depreciation or obsolescence rate, which is inherently variable and responds to competitive pressure. Nevertheless, most of the previous literature has used a constant depreciation rate to construct R&D capital stocks and...
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presents some empirical evidence on the effects of innovation on employment growth and therefore on firms' productivity with … contribution of innovation in general to productivity growth is almost nil in Italy during this period …
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A comparative study of the contribution of R&D to firm-level productivity in French and United States manufacturing … control for both sources of estimation bias, and we find 1) overall, the contribution of R&D to sales productivity growth …
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to replicate and update a series of studies on French R&D and productivity growth at the firm level during the 1970s. The …: first. having a longer history of R&D expenditures helps in predicting the productivity growth of firms, but the choice of … grounds over the rate of returns variation which has been used in the past. Finally, the productivity, of knowledge capital in …
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between appropriability mechanisms, innovation and firm-level productivity. We enrich this model in several ways. First, we … estimate the impact of the innovation output conditional on the choice of appropriability mechanisms on firms' productivity. We …
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) 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 …
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What do we know about the relationship between innovation and productivity among firms? The workhorse model of this … innovation are derived. The recent empirical evidence on the relationship between innovation and productivity in firms is then … surveyed. The conclusion is that there are substantial positive impacts of product innovation on revenue productivity, but that …
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