development, productivity, etc.; finds that foreign owned multinational enterprise subsidiarys do not sell technology; considers …

of almost 5 years is needed to capture the productivity impact of R&D. The fourth essay studies how patent quality …-R&D employment. The third essay focuses on the productivity effects of R&D. The results of empirical analyses are two-fold. In the … short run (in 1-2 years), no statistically significant productivity impact of R&D is found. However, R&D does have an …

Economists have managed to find a positive impact of R&D efforts on productivity. However, the empirical results of … impact of technological opportunity on the productivity of R&D activities. Technological opportunity refers to the ease of … quantified by patent statistics. The empirical findings confirm a positive relationship between technological opportunity and the …

impact on patent count at industry level, and this impact is larger than that of R&D expenditures. We confirm that this … unprecedented growth. We then proceed to study if this positive impact of VC is also present on productivity growth, which is a … measure of innovation alternative to patent count. Unlike the impact on patent count, we do not find that VC investment …

of inventors working inside firms, matched to patent data from the European Patent Office. The empirical analysis employs … a so-called productivity approach in which the inventors? knowledge sourcing strategies are used as explanatory factors …. These findings are stronger for inventors? productivity (quantity) than for their quality. In particular, the sole use of …

spawns. Using a novel data set that combines employer-employee micro data from Sweden with firm level patent application data …

This paper analyzes the impact of domestic and foreign technology in explaining Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth …