indicators and multifactor productivity (MFP) growth is also examined with a particular focus on the role of public policies in … government support and patent rights are found to be successful in encouraging the innovative activities associated with higher … productivity growth. However, direct empirical evidence of the positive effects of these policies on productivity is less …

linkage between channels of international knowledge spillovers and total factor productivity. We distinguish between domestic … and international intra- and inter-sectoral spillover sources. Patent applications are exploited to estimate the … contribution of technology transfer to industrial productivity. To account for technological distance, we weight foreign knowledge …