investment in agricultural research and to measure its impact on total factor productivity. The main methodological contribution … productivity for rice, wheat and maize grew rapidly and new technology accounts for most of the productivity growth …

causes of innovation in the context of inward foreign direct investment. We find that local absorptive capacity critically … affects creative power. Economies transfer techniques using various approaches, impacting local innovation in diversity. A low …

innovation. Using a difference-in-differences method, we find that the application of industrial robots increases firm innovation …. We identify two possible channels through which robots promote innovation: alleviation of financing constraints and the … improvement of human capital. Further analysis shows that the effect of robots on innovation is more pronounced for firms that are …

In a recent paper, Bloom et al. (2020) find evidence for a substantial decline in research productivity in the U …

This paper analyses the influence of in-house R&D and external knowledge acquisition on the total factor productivity …

The importance of services inputs in enhancing manufacturing productivity and competitiveness has been well documented …