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A global decline in research productivity? : evidence from China and Germany
Boeing, Philipp; Hünermund, Paul - 2020
In a recent paper, Bloom et al. (2020) find evidence for a substantial decline in research productivity in the U.S. economy during the last 40 years. In this paper, we replicate their findings for China and Germany, using detailed firm-level data spanning three decades. Our results indicate that...
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Do firms benefit from complementarity effect in R&D and what drives their R&D strategy choices?
Cantner, Uwe; Savin, Ivan - 2014
This paper analyzes whether firms conducting internal R&D and acquiring external high-tech equipment experience a complementarity effect. For German CIS data we conduct a complete set of indirect and direct complementarity tests refining the analysis by looking at various types of innovations...
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Chapter 25. Patent Statistics as an Innovation Indicator
Nagaoka, Sadao; Motohashi, Kazuyuki; Goto, Akira - 2010
This chapter summarizes the basic characteristics of patent data as an innovation indicator and reviews some of the … surveys such as the “innovation survey” of firms and the inventor survey. They have deepened our understanding of the …
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Patterns of innovation during the Industrial Revolution: a reappraisal using a composite indicator of patent quality
Nuvolari, Alessandro; Tartari, Valentina; Tranchero, Matteo - 2020
The distinction between macro- and microinventions is at the core of recent debates on the Industrial Revolution. Yet, the empirical testing of this notion has remained elusive. We address this issue by introducing a new quality indicator for all patents granted in England in the period...
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The impact of innovation on labour productivity growth in European industries : does it depend on firms' competitiveness strategies?
Bogliacino, Francesco; Pianta, Mario - 2009
of technological competitiveness (based on innovation in products and markets) or cost competitiveness (relying on … innovation in processes and machinery) and their impact on economic performances. We propose models for the determinants of … classes that group manufacturing and services industries with distinct patterns of innovation. Tests are carried out by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012056173
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Research and Development, Innovation, Training, Quality and Profitability : Evidence from France
Galia, Fabrice; Legros, Diego - 2013
This paper simultaneously explores the firm-level relationships between R&D investments, innovation, training … investments, quality and firm performance. It offers empirical evidence on how innovation, training and quality affect firm … the French innovation survey combined with firm-level register data. This allows us to consider a number of training and …
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Research Technology and the Rate and Direction of Innovation : A Taxonomy of Implications
Barbosu, Sandra; Teodoridis, Florenta - 2023
Innovation is fundamentally dependent on the support of research technology. Governments and organizations have been …, our understanding of how specific attributes of research technologies affect the rate and direction of innovation, and … evaluates the role of research technology attributes for the rate and direction of innovation. The model produces empirically …
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Testing R&D-Based Endogenous Growth Models
Kruse-Andersen, Peter - 2017
R&D-based growth models are tested using US data for the period 1953-2014. A general growth model is developed which nests the model varieties of interest. The model implies a cointegrating relationship between multifactor productivity, research intensity, and employment. This relationship is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012959253
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Drivers for international innovation activities in developed and emerging countries
Schmiele, Anja - 2009
This paper aims to shed light on firm specific drivers that lead firms to internationalise their innovation activities …’s competitive environment and the influence of innovation obstacles in the home country. In particular, the role of the potential … used to observe their impact on the decision to locate innovation activities in various countries and regions (China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003888033
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Drivers for International Innovation Activities in Developed and Emerging Countries
Schmiele, Anja - 2013
distributed globally. Firms' innovation activities which are carried out abroad comprise either the localization of uniform … paper is to show how internal firm capabilities as well as external forces from the firm’s business and national innovation … environment impact on the firm's decision to carry out different innovation activities abroad. The analysis is based on around …
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