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This paper asks: what can governments of new member states do to encourage MNEs to invest in R&D? There are two types of MNE R&D. Innovation can be undertaken in order to adapt its existing products and services to local stimuli. This is 'demand-driven R&D'. Innovation can also be in stand-alone...
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development of national productivity. As technology is also embodied in human capital, the paper empirically investigates the …
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cover essentially all firms in the Finnish business sector, we first document that labor productivity dispersion is very … market equilibrium and whether innovation subsidies can improve industry productivity by mitigating such a tax distortion. …
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in productivity growth. It helps to explain the historical emergence of R&D-based growth and the subsequent emergence of … population growth and innovative activity turns negative during economic development. This “population-productivity reversal …
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productivity performance of large European R&D Multinational Enterprises (MNEs). Based on the worldwide subsidiaries of these firms … from globalisation on firms’ R&D productivity, especially in the US, while a negative impact for industrial diversification …
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After presenting the history, the evolution and the content of innovation surveys, we discuss the characteristics of the data they contain and the challenge they pose to the analyst and the econometrician. We document the two uses that have been made of these data: the construction of...
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examines the knowledge-based determinants of productivity of firms active in food processing, textiles, and garments and … productivity in the different industries. The knowledge sources driving productivity performance are very different across sectors …. In food processing, firm productivity is most strongly affected by quality of management and foreign ownership linkages …
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-parametric test for first order stochastic dominance it is shown that, in line with this hypothesis, the productivity distribution of … productivity. …
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process innovation on productivity in the Chilean manufacturing industry during the past decade. In general, the evidence … suggests there is not a contemporaneous effect of product innovation on productivity, but there is a positive effect of process …, the results show the presence of lagged effects product innovation on productivity two years after innovation. Compared …
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This paper analyzes quantitative findings on the innovative behavior of firms in the production chains of pisco and shoe manufacture in Peru, which are served by the network of Technological Innovation Centers (CITEs), the most important technology policy instrument available in Peru. These two...
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