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Unleashing business innovation in Canada

Ivanchuk Bibbee, Alexandra I. - 2012

This paper discusses how to improve Canada’s business innovation in order to boost labour productivity and output … growth. Many general framework conditions are highly favourable to business risk-taking and innovation, including macro … should be on boosting manager and worker skills that are intrinsic to all forms of innovation, by filling gaps in training …

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Managerial capital and business R&D as enablers of productivity convergence

Andrews, Dan; Westmore, Ben - 2014

and carefully-designed innovation policies. …

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Who patents, how much is real invention and how relevant? : a snapshot of firms and their inventions based on the 2016 SIPO China Patent Survey

Molnár, Margit; Xu, Hui - 2019

China has surpassed the United States in patent applications and has become world leader. Strong patenting activity, however, did not lead to strong productivity growth. The delinking of patenting activity from productivity growth could be explained by quality and relevance issues. Although the...

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Estonia : raising productivity and benefitting more from openness

Kappeler, Andreas - 2015

specialisation and innovation; removing remaining barriers to entrepreneurship and competition; ensuring access to finance for SMEs …

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Raising competitiveness and long-term growth of the Slovenian economy

Sila, Urban; Jemec, Nataša Todorović; Morgavi, Hermes - 2015

The rapid growth after independence stopped in 2008 as the global crisis exposed important structural weaknesses. Large state involvement and rigid labour and product markets lowered productivity. Weak corporate governance and easy credit before the crisis led to high indebtedness and...

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Restarting the growth engine in Finland

Braconier, Henrik - 2012

Impressive productivity performance during the last decades has weakened since 2007, reflecting the 2008-09 recession but also a poor performance in important sectors, like the information and communication technology sector. Reforms to raise long term productivity growth need to be pursued....

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Strengthening competition in Poland

Égert, Balázs; Goujard, Antoine - 2014

Poland’s productivity has grown strongly over the past decade, and efforts to reduce the regulatory burden have been significant. Despite impressive progress, product market regulation remains more burdensome than in most OECD countries, partly due to the importance of red tape and the level...

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Boosting firm dynamism and performance in China

Molnár, Margit - 2017

, should step up innovation efforts and improve corporate governance practices. To this end, supportive policies are needed …, fostering an environment that is more conducive to innovation and entrepreneurship, and facilitating resource reallocation …

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Fostering inclusive growth in Turkey by promoting structural change in the business sector

Gönenç, Rauf; Röhn, Oliver; Koen, Vincent; … - 2014

Turkey’s business sector dynamism has underpinned broad-based and inclusive growth in the 2000s. However, the business sector is highly segmented, with a relatively small core of modern high-productivity corporations, and myriad small, less formal and low-productivity entities. This hampers...

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Import competition, domestic regulation and firm-level productivity growth in the OECD

Yahmed, Sarra Ben; Dougherty, Sean M. - 2012

This paper examines how import penetration affects firms' productivity growth taking into account the heterogeneity in firms' distance to the efficiency frontier and country differences in product market regulation. Using firm-level data for a large number of OECD countries, the analysis reveals...

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