/EU productivity gap. We find robust evidence that US firms have a higher capacity to translate R&D into productivity gains (especially … in the high-tech industries), and this contributes to explaining the higher productivity of US firms. Conversely, EU … firms are more likely to achieve productivity gains through capital-embodied technological change at least in medium and low …

The aim of this paper is to investigate the productivity impact of business visits, relative to traditional drivers of … productivity enhancement, namely capital formation and R&D. To carry out the analysis, we combine unique and novel data on business … results suggest that mobility through business visits is an effective mechanism to improve productivity. The estimated effect …

by labour productivity. To this end, the stochastic frontier technique is used on a unique unbalanced longitudinal … firms. From a policy perspective, the results of this study suggest that - if the aim is to leverage firms' productivity … other hand, corporate R&D in the low-tech sector is found to have a minor effect in explaining productivity. Instead …

Visits as a productivity enhancing channel of technology transfer. Our analysis is based on a unique database on business … evidence that BVs contribute to fostering labour productivity in a significant way. While this is consistent with what found by … returns, being more crucial in those sectors characterized by less mobility and by lower productivity performances. …

This paper discusses the link between R&D and productivity across the European industrial and service sectors. The …. First, the R&D stock has a significant positive impact on labour productivity; this general result is largely consistent …, fiscal incentives, etc.) in support of private R&D. However, R&D investment is not the sole source of productivity gains …