We analyze the effect of ICT and R&D on total factor productivity (TFP) growth across different industries in Sweden. R …&D alone is significantly associated with contemporaneous TFP growth, thus exhibiting spillover effects. Although there is no … significant short-run association between ICT and TFP, we find a positive association with a lag of seven to eight years. Thus …

educational expenditure has a positive effect, and government investment has no effect on private productivity growth. The impact … expenditure on productivity growth in the private sector. The focus on productivity in the private sector and the use of … is also found to work solely through total factor productivity and not via the marginal productivity of labor and capital …

This study consists of an examination of productivity growth following three major technological breakthroughs: the … original invention until a substantial increase in the rate of productivity growth can be observed. There is also strong … persuasive direct evidence that the steam engine producing industry and electric machinery had particularly high productivity …