R&D output to capture the contribution of R&D (direct and spilled-over) to regional productivity at the industry level …. The results suggest that interregional knowledge spillovers and their productivity effects are to a substantial degree …) produce interregional knowledge spillovers that have positive and highly significant productivity effects. The study, moreover …

The purpose of this paper is to examine how the Solow residual relates to innovation at the firm level. We estimate two … kinds of relationships. The first relationship explains innovation output from innovation inputs. The second relationship … relates TFP growth to innovation output. We obtain two main results. First, the determinants of incremental and radical …

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 …

include ICT investment and R&D as the two main inputs of innovation and productivity. We find that R&D and ICT are both … strongly associated with innovation and productivity, with R&D being more important for innovation and ICT for productivity. We … explore their possible complementarity in innovation and production but find none, although there is complementarity between R …

addresses the issue of understanding how much differences in firms' productivity depend on regional localization and sector …

firm’s productivity, especially process innovation. Among SMEs, larger and older firms seem to be less productive …Innovation in SMEs exhibits some peculiar features that most traditional indicators of innovation activity do not … capture. Therefore, in this paper, we develop a structural model of innovation which incorporates information on innovation …

Companies invest in research and development (R&D) to safeguard their competitive ability and increase productivity … of regional research and innovation systems on a region-by-region basis. The goal should be to reinforce the regional …

effect of robots on employment outcomes in Italy (second European economy for robot stock) from the early 1990s up to 2016 …

I adopt the distribution dynamics framework to study labor productivity convergence, in the period 1980-1995, among 28 …

championed on grounds of improving productivity, efficiency, and competitiveness. In a developing economy this is a costly … proposition due to capital scarcity, and the effect of technological changes on productivity and efficiency levels have to be … estimated before taking such policies. This paper seeks to estimate trends in Factor Productivity, Technological Progress, and …