productivity (as opposed to manufacturing productivity), we build closely on the theoretical literature on spillovers that suggests …

frontier? This paper models agents growing as a result of investments in innovation and imitation. Imitation facilitates … technology diffusion, with the productivity of imitation modeled by a catch-up function that increases with distance to the … optimally choose to "catch-up" or "fall-back" to a productivity ratio below the frontier …

This paper investigates changes in the output and productivity of research and development activities in Japanese …&D productivity at the firm-level suggest that there has been a slowdown in the growth of Japanese research productivity in the 1990s …

leaders. We find strong evidence of technological diffusion but not full convergence; differences in total factor productivity …

In this paper, we examine the changes in per-capita income and productivity from 1700 to modern times, and show four …

In this paper we emphasize the contribution of technical change, broadly defined, towards productivity growth in … excessively focused on physical capital investments determining productivity differentials, which consequently led to an …

is assumed to differ in productivity according to a parametric function of R&D effort embodied in that vintage of capital …&D expenditures at Bell Laboratories and the improvements in the productivity of specific capital inputs which are due to those R … growing over time. In addition,the rate of increase in the productivity of capital inputs has risen over time. The model fails …

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 …

sources of the growth of output, labor productivity, and total factor productivity. The results show that resource …

, patented inventions, and total factor productivity) to identify a plausible model of endogenous technological change. In the US … (as well as in other developed countries) research employment and total factor productivity have both grown, while the …