The knowledge production function is central to Ramp;D-based growth models. This paper empirically investigates the … in light of existing theoretical and empirical evidence on endogenous growth …

Recent research has revealed enormous variation in performance and growth among firms, which both drives and is driven …

This paper examines whether growth regressions should incorporate dualism and structural change. If there is a … factor productivity. The paper develops empirical growth models that allow for this effect in a more flexible way than … labour can explain a significant fraction of the international variation in TFP growth. …

at least half of product innovation and growth comes from firms that never patent. We also find that market leaders use …

This chapter is an exposition, rather than a survey, of the one-sector neoclassical growth model. It describes how the … non-renewable natural resources, endogenous population growth and technological progress. In each case, the purpose is to …

We develop a model of growth driven by successive improvements in `General Purpose Technologies' (GPTs), such as the … second phase that growth starts in earnest. The historical record of productivity growth associated with electrification, and …

Trends in gross domestic product (GDP) and total factor productivity (TFP) growth in the former socialist economies … seem to indicate that these economies were converging to unusually low long-run growth rates in the late 1980s. In this … paper we develop an endogenous growth model of entrepreneurship that is able to account for the difference in long …

economic growth and therefore of technological change. Dynamic Panel estimation technique is used to investigate whether a … activities, improving in that way the use of scarce resources and favoring a sustainable growth …