The main objective of this study is to investigate the impact of corporate R&D activities onfirms’ performance, measured by labour productivity. To this end, the stochastic frontiertechnique is applied, basing the analysis on a unique unbalanced longitudinal datasetconsisting of 532 top...

We prove that the change in welfare of a representative consumer is summarized by thecurrent and expected future values of the standard Solow productivity residual. Theequivalence holds if the representative household maximizes utility while taking pricesparametrically. This result justifies TFP...

This paper focuses on the relationship between firms’ technological capabilities and differentforms of cooperation for innovation by combining the analysis of both micro and meso levels,i.e. the level of the firm and of the geographical region. Our findings, based on the Fourth UKCommunity...

This paper releases the result of an empirical study of the trends and major determinants of technological diversification in the period from 1983 to 1997.

This paper deals with the basic concepts of technology competence assessment. Futhermore it qualifies some practical experiences and case examples.