manufacturing sector to decompose total factor productivity growth into technical efficiency change and technical progress for … industries and firm sizes, leading to total factor productivity growth. The analysis identifies the industries and firm sizes … that lag the most in productivity, and thus have the greatest scope for policies that facilitate productivity growth. …

answer the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to (i) employment generation and dynamics, (ii) innovation …, 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 …

and export intensity. We investigate theoretically and empirically how financial constraints affect a firm's innovation … export and innovation activities to become substitutes although they are generally natural complements. …

between the presence of external investors and domestic firms’ productivity, no matter which regional breakdown is looked at … cases are obviously not strong enough to increase the domestic firms’ overall productivity. …

answer the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to (i) employment generation and dynamics, (ii) innovation …, 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 …

answer the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to (i) employment generation and dynamics, (ii) innovation …, 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 …

productivity. This paper documents the changes in rice productivity, policy and institutions in the last 100 years and identifies … the technological change that may have affected rice productivity. One hundred years has totally changed rice production … practices and improved productivity. Technical innovations that helped improved rice productivity include irrigation, pest …

firm productivity and export decision are closely related to its innovation ac- tivity. Product innovation may play a … exporting and conesequently from exporting to process innovation and reverse productivity improvements. Using detailed mi … more important role in the decision to start exporting, while the decision for process innovation may be triggered by …

. Our findings suggest that the productivity gains from investments in the three innovative activities are related to firm …

rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT …-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some limited support for more rapid productivity growth in IT … expectations, is that output contracts in IT-intensive industries relative to the rest of manufacturing. Productivity increases …