reduction of entry barriers for start-ups and increasing high-skilled labour would contribute towards raising productivity and … come close to achieving the Lisbon productivity and knowledge-investment targets. Achieving US standards in all three areas … would reduce the productivity gap by about 50 percent. Improving the quality of tertiary education and increasing …

. Majority of the research on public corporate funding concerning Finland focuses on R&D subsidies; there are fewer studies … employment, especially among young and small companies. Impacts on the productivity are, however, uncertain. Cooperation of … help firms to grow larger but do not improve their productivity. …

, and (iii) productivity and growth, relative to the contributions of the entrepreneurs’ counterparts, i.e., the ‘control … very important—but specific—function in the economy. They engender relatively much employment creation, productivity growth …

The literature on economic growth has identified knowledge expansion as a key propellant. Early research derived this …

productivity growth. …

larger productivity gains from trade liberalization than previously thought. …

Conventional R&D-based growth theory argues that productivity growth is driven by population growth but the data … suggest that the erstwhile positive correlation between population and productivity turned negative during the 20th century … explains why in modern economies high growth of productivity and income is associated with low or negative population growth …

symmetric Research Joint Ventures (RJVs) increase productivity to a greater extent than RJVs between asymmetric firms. The … effects of international co-operative R&D on short term productivity gains among European manufacturing firms and to clarify …

the pronounced worsening of total factor productivity. The paper is rounded out by estimates of some measures of wage …