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The Reorganization of Inventive Activity in the United States during the Early Twentieth Century
Lamoreaux, Naomi R. - 2009
The standard view of U.S. technological history is that the locus of invention shifted during the early twentieth century to large firms whose in-house research laboratories were superior sites for advancing the complex technologies of the second industrial revolution. In recent years this view...
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Innovation and Productivity in SMEs : Empirical Evidence for Italy
Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2008
Innovation in SMEs exhibits some peculiar features that most traditional indicators of innovation activity do not capture. Therefore, in this paper, we develop a structural model of innovation which incorporates information on innovation success from firm surveys along with the usual R&D...
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Do Tax Credits Affect R&D Expenditures by Small Firms? Evidence from Canada
Agrawal, Ajay - 2014
We exploit a change in eligibility rules for the Canadian Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SRED) tax credit to gain insight on how tax credits impact small-firm R&D expenditures. After a 2004 program change, privately owned firms that became eligible for a 35 percent tax credit...
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The Importance (or not) of Patents to UK Firms
Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2013
A surprisingly small number of innovative firms use the patent system. In the UK, the share of firms patenting among those reporting that they have innovated is about 4%. Survey data from the same firms support the idea that they do not consider patents or other forms of registered IP as...
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Comparison and Analysis of Productivity Growth and R&D Investment in theElectrical Machinery Industries of the United States and Japan
Nadiri, M. Ishaq - 1986
This paper presents a comparative analysis of productivity growth in the U.S. and Japanese electrical machinery industries in the postwar period. This industry has experienced rapid growth in output and productivity and high rates of capital formation in both countries. A substantial amount of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477226
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R&D and Productivity Growth : Comparing Japanese and U.S. Manufacturing Firms
Griliches, Zvi - 1985
firms, in both Japan and the U.S., and relate them to differences in the rates of growth in their capital-labor ratios and … estimated effect of the growth in the capital-labor ratio on firm productivity is approximately twice as large in Japan than in …
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Is Japan's Innovative Capacity in Decline?
Branstetter, Lee - 2003
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...
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Capturing Technological Opportunity via Japan's Star Scientists : Evidence from Japanese Firms' Biotech Patents and Products
Zucker, Lynne G. - 1998
Using detailed data on biotechnology in Japan, we find that identifiable collaborations" between particular university … incentives motivating their participation in" technology transfer. In Japan, the legal and institutional context implies that …" in the firm's labs. As a result, star collaborations in Japan are less localized around their research" universities so …
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The Myth of the Patient Japanese : Corporate Myopia and Financial Distress in Japan and the US
Hall, Brian J. - 1996
It is widely believed that the stock-market oriented US financial system forces corporate managers to behave myopically relative to their Japanese counterparts, who operate in a bank-based system. We hypothesize that if US firms are more myopic than Japanese firms, then episodes of financial...
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R&D, Production Structure and Productivity Growth : A Comparison of the US, Japanese and Korean Manufacturing Sectors
Nadiri, M. Ishaq - 1996
We estimate and compare the production structures of the US, Japanese, and Korean total manufacturing sectors for the 1974-1990 period. We employ a translog variable cost function that includes such inputs as labor, materials, physical and R&D capital with the physical and R&D capital treated as...
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