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From “Made in China” to “Innovated in China” : Necessity, Prospect, and Challenges
Wei, Shang-Jin - 2016
on its ability to generate productivity increase, and domestic innovation will be an important part of it. In this paper …. In terms of drivers of innovation growth, we find that embracing expanded market opportunities in the world economy and … misallocation in the innovation area: while state-owned firms receive more subsidies, private firms exhibit more innovation results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455826
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463209
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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 … process and product innovation. Both these kinds of innovation have a positive impact on firm's productivity, especially …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464055
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The Importance (or not) of Patents to UK Firms
Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2013
innovative performance measured as turnover due to innovation, but not between patenting and subsequent employment growth. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459572
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Whither Flat Panel Displays?
Krishna, Kala - 1996
This paper examines possible consequences of subsidies to R&D and to volume production proposed under the Clinton administration's flat panel display initiative. We do this in the context of a model in which firms behave competitively in the short run, while realizing that their choices of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473449
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International R&D Rivalry and Industrial Strategy
Spencer, Barbara J. - 1983
This paper presents a theory of government intervention which provides an explanation for "industrial strategy" policies such as R&D or export subsidies in imperfectly competitive international markets. Each producing country has an incentive to try to capture a greater share of rent-earning...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477907
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Industrial Policy, Employer Size, and Economic Performance in Sweden
Davis, Steven J. - 1995
The pre-1990 Swedish tax system strongly disfavored younger, smaller and less capital-intensive firms and sectors and discouraged entrepreneurship and family ownership of businesses in favor of institutional ownership. Credit market regulations, the national pension system, employment security...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473640
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In with the Big, Out with the Small : Removing Small-Scale Reservations in India
Martin, Leslie A. - 2014
An ongoing debate in employment policy is whether promoting small and medium enterprises creates more employment. Do small enterprises generate more employment growth than larger firms? We use the elimination of small-scale industry (SSI) promotion in India to address this question. For 60...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458175
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458050
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Research and/or Development? Financial Frictions and Innovation Investment
Mezzanotti, Filippo; Simcoe, Timothy S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
disaggregates "R" from "D" to study how US firms adjust their innovation investments in response to an external increase in funding …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014337755