This paper examines Total Factor Productivity (TFP) and knowledge flows, using international patent data. The result is …-industry innovation enhances domestic productivity, and domestic between industry innovations are productivity enhancing. However, foreign …-sourced between-industry innovation has a negative effect on domestic productivity. This highlights the dual aspect of patents as a …

Stronger productivity growth in the US than the EU over the late 1990s is widely attributed to faster, more widespread …

productivity growth. …

patent and trademark office that minimizes the legal uncertainty surrounding patents as collateral and maximizes the growth …

agglomeration and congestion. The main finding is that the negative effect of congestion on productivity is highly likely to … outweigh the positive productivity effect of agglomeration economies within the STIPs but not among high-tech firms outside the … STIPs. The paper also finds that the productivity of high-tech firms, whether within or outside the STIPs, are positively …

technologies have so far delivered little productivity gains in Europe. In the second half of the past decade, growth contributions … United States, this has not generally been associated to higher labour or total factor productivity growth rates, the only … correlation between ICT investment and productivity growth has fled the US to migrate to Europe. …

the other hand, is the major force leading to convergence in productivity due to the effect of the diffusion of technology … convergence in productivity levels. The structural model is then tested for a set of OECD countries over the period 1965 to 1994 …

Finland from 1975 to 2001. ICT-production has in the late 1990s had significant impacts on growth and labour productivity (LP …. Labour productivity growth in the period 1995 to 2001 manifests larger structural changes than in previous periods, with the … step-up in multi-factor productivity being the most notable. The relative contribution of ICT-capital deepening has also …