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Innovation and Productivity in SMEs : Empirical Evidence for Italy

Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2008

Innovation in SMEs exhibits some peculiar features that most traditional indicators of innovation activity do not capture. Therefore, in this paper, we develop a structural model of innovation which incorporates information on innovation success from firm surveys along with the usual R&D...

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An Exploration of Local R&D Spillovers in France

Mairesse, Jacques - 2008

within own-area and across neighboring areas as well as within own-industry, but they are weaker across different industries …

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Intangible Capital and Productivity : An Exploration on a Panel of Italian Manufacturing Firms

Bontempi, Maria Elena - 2008

The paper examines the size and productivity of total intangible capital relative to total tangible capital for a large panel of Italian Manufacturing firms. In the analysis, we decompose total intangibles in two different ways: in intangibles expensed in firms' current accounts (as usually...

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Panel Data Estimates Of The Production Function And Product And Labor Market Imperfections

Dobbelaere, Sabien - 2008

regime (IC-EB), we also relate our industry and firm-level estimates of price-cost mark-up and relative extent of rent … sharing to industry characteristics and firm-specific variables respectively …

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Employment, Innovation, and Productivity : Evidence from Italian Microdata

Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2007

Italian manufacturing firms have been losing ground with respect to many of their European competitors. This paper presents some empirical evidence on the effects of innovation on employment growth and therefore on firms' productivity with the goal of understanding the roots of such poor...

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Knowledge Management, Innovation, and Productivity : A Firm Level Exploration Based on French Manufacturing CIS3 Data

Kremp, Elisabeth - 2004

innovative and productivity performance are not completely accounted by firm size, industry, research & development (R&D) efforts …

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Evidence on the Impact of R&D and ICT Investment on Innovation and Productivity in Italian Firms

Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2012

Both Research and Development (R&D) and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) investment have been identified as sources of relative innovation underperformance in Europe vis-à-vis the United States. In this paper we investigate R&D and ICT investment at the firm level in an effort to...

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Panel Data Estimates of the Production Function and Product and Labor Market Imperfections

Dobbelaere, Sabien - 2007

industry and the firm level using an unbalanced panel of 10646 French firms in 38 manufacturing industries over the period 1978 … sharing parameters. Our industry-level results indicate that industry differences in these parameters are quite sizeable. To … dispersion show sizeable within-industry firm heterogeneity. Firm size, capital intensity, distance to the industry technology …

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Evidence on the Impact of R&D and ICT Investment on Innovation and Productivity in Italian Firms

Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2013

The paper investigates R&D and ICT investment at firm level, assessing their relative importance and the extent to which they are complements or substitutes. We use data on a large unbalanced panel sample from four consecutive waves of a survey of Italian manufacturing firms, together with a...

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Evidence on the Impact of R&D and ICT Investment on Innovation and Productivity in Italian Firms

Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2014

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