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

of proxy variables, whereas Total Factor Productivity is used as a measure of economic growth. Panel data of 26 European …. Business Birth Rate, Self-employment Rate, Business Investment and Labour Productivity Growth were all found to be highly … reflect the complexity of the notion. -- entrepreneurship ; total factor productivity ; economic growth ; the EU …

To what extent has input reallocation contributed to aggregate productivity growth in the banking sectors of Europe and … productivity has grown by reallocating inputs through the first half of the sample period, at the same time when reallocation … reallocation is an important driver of increases in productivity. …

The euro area experienced a slowdown in output and Total Factor Productivity growth in the 1990s compared to the 1980s …

-intensive manufacturing industries and is positively correlated with growth in total factor productivity across countries and industries …

Productivity across European regions is related to three types of networks that mediate R&D-related knowledge … co-patenting relations appear to affect local productivity directly, regions that link up to innovative leader regions … via imports gain in productivity only when they have relatively high levels of human capital and absorptive capacity. From …