Political activism positively affects firm innovation. Firms that support more politicians, politicians on … innovation. The results are consistent with the hypothesis that political activism is valuable because it helps reduce political … uncertainty, which, in turn, fosters firm innovation. Also consistent with this hypothesis, we show that politically active firms …

This paper proposes a Schumpeterian growth model generalizing the existing theory : we exploit the formalization of a … a new light on several questions : how to explain that growth can be over or sub-optimal ? Patent or secrecy : how …

' innovation behaviours can be analysed and exploited in order to assess the technological performance of the economy. Three … empirical applications using French data are derived from the previous argument. Our results show first that innovation is … highly persistent. Moreover benefits (in terms of productivity) resulting from innovation are differentiated according to the …

discussions of long term economic growth". …

eight articles on a wide range of productivity topics. There are the new economy and trend productivity growth in Canada … living, the postwar productivity convergence experience among OECD countries, price cap regulation and productivity growth …

subject to strategic manipulation by regulated firms should be the productivity growth rate used to develop the appropriate …