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This paper studies the effect of competition on firm innovation by developing a discrete-time endogenous growth model … where multi-product firms do two types of innovation subject to friction in technology spillovers. Firms improve their … existing products through internal innovation while entering others' product markets through external innovation. We introduce …
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increase in labour productivity by 6.5% and an increase in the likelihood of a successful product innovation by about 1 …This paper investigates the effect of market size on innovation activities across different durable good industries in …
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Economic growth requires factor reallocation across firms and continuous replacement of technologies. Labor market institutions influence economic dynamism by their impact on the supply of a key factor, skilled workers to new and expanding firms, and the shedding of workers from declining and...
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Economic growth requires factor reallocation across firms and continuous replacement of technologies. Labor market institutions influence economic dynamism by their impact on the supply of a key factor, skilled workers to new and expanding firms, and the shedding of workers from declining and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012139466
Manufacturing has traditionally been regarded in the development literature as having special "growth-pulling" or "growth-enhancing" properties. The share of manufacturing in GDP has been declining slightly over time in South Africa, while that of services has been growing. This study focuses on...
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of highly valued products. In so doing, we suggest an innovation policy framework based on two pillars: (i) the … economy. We argue that the latter area has been overlooked in the policy discussion and that a coherent innovation policy …
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In a recent paper, Bloom et al. (2020) find evidence for a substantial decline in research productivity in the U …
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innovation on firm survival and firm productivity, which constitute the two main channels through which innovation drives growth …-linearity and volatility in the gains from R&D/innovation, particularly in terms of its effects on firm survival and productivity … perspectives that inform the empirical models allow for heterogeneity in the effects of R&D/innovation on firm survival and …
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This contribution analyzes the impact of intangible capital on labor productivity growth across countries at the … capital deepening accounts for around 40 percent of labor productivity growth at both the aggregate and sectoral level. Second …, we find that this positive impact of intangible capital on productivity growth at both levels of aggregation is driven by …
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This contribution analyzes the impact of intangible capital on labor productivity growth across countries at the … capital deepening accounts for around 50 percent of labor productivity growth at both the aggregate and sectoral level. Second …, we find that this positive impact of intangible capital on productivity growth at both levels of aggregation is driven by …
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