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This paper estimates the effects of innovations on productivity growth and the productivity elasticity of R&D capital … evaluate their contribution to growth. Innovations push productivity growth up to 12-18% in the long run and up to 7.3% in the …&D capital through the 'innovation effect'. Furthermore, we allow R&D capital or labor to enter the technological coefficient as …
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productivity using firm-level data. First, a broader definition of innovation input is used in which research and development is …This paper investigates whether failure in innovation at the firm level can account for cross-country heterogeneity in … manufacturing productivity growth. There is no strong evidence in the literature on the existence of such link. Our work, however …
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This paper serves as another complementary link in a chain of a rather limited number of investigations in the R&D-innovation-productivity … relationship within service industries. Innovation has been found to be a major contributor to productivity growth in manufacturing …. In this paper, the importance of innovation is explored by comparing manufacturing and service firms in a sample of …
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We study the impact of techies-engineers and other technically trained workers-on firm-level productivity. We first … STEM-skill intensive and are associated with innovation, as well as with technology adoption, management, and diffusion …-neutral productivity in both manufacturing and non-manufacturing industries. We find that techies raise firm-level productivity, and this …
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We analyze the link between R&D, innovation, and productivity in MSMEs with a special focus on micro firms with fewer … their labor productivity. Overall, the link between R&D, innovation, and productivity in micro firms does not largely differ … the probability of reporting innovation, with a larger effect size for product than for process innovations. Moreover …
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This paper explores the employment impact of innovation activity, taking into account both R&D expenditures and …-2010. The main outcome from the proposed fixed effect estimations is a labor-friendly nature of total innovation expenditures … ETC is included as a proxy for innovation activities. Moreover, the positive employment impacts of innovation activities …
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-on empirical work, Bloom, Jones, Van Reenen and Webb (2020) document declining research productivity across a number of domains …, and interpret the decline as fishing out. However, it's possible productivity has declined for other reasons, e.g., that …
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This paper aims at investigating the relationship between firms' profit efficiency, access to finance and innovation … efficiency in order to increase profitability. Among firms that have embarked in product innovation, those in the industry and … help to better understand the link between innovation, financial constraints and efficiency, which goes beyond the idea …
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Our paper adds empirical evidence on the causal effects of exporting on firms' performances. Using a rich database on Italian manufacturing firms, we test the self-selection and the post-entry effects hypotheses with respect to various firms' characteristics. Our analysis supports the idea that...
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practices of others. That some firms converge relatively slowly to the productivity frontier suggests the existence of factors … that cause them to underinvest in their productivity. In this paper we explore how far higher rates of corporate taxation … affect firm productivity convergence by reducing the after tax returns to productivity enhancing investments for small firms …
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