sectors. In addition, a firm’s survival and growth are regressed with patenting and open innovation (measured by joint patent … Japanese firms by using a linked dataset of Establishment and Enterprise Census and the IIP Patent Database (JPO patent …

-sized enterprises (SME). Evidence suggests that enhancing R&D among small firms is essential for Japan's economic growth. This paper … bias. Furthermore, empirical studies have found that Japan's total factor productivity (TFP) growth has slowed since the …