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New insights on EU-US comparison of corporate R&D

Moncada Paternò Castello, Pietro - 2010

Policy-makers have become increasingly aware that corporate R&D and innovation are the main drivers of an economy's competitiveness and growth. The widespread adoption of R&D targets has led researchers and analysts to pursue a deeper understanding of corporate R&D investment trends, drivers and...

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Improving the Capacity to Innovate in Germany

Fuentes, Andrés; Wurzel, Eckhard; Morgan, Margaret - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2004

Key indicators show Germany belonging to the countries in the OECD with strong innovation activity even though some weakening in Germany’s position relative to other OECD countries has occurred recently. While the redirection of resources towards unification-related spending as well as low...

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Boosting Austria's Innovation Performance

Leibfritz, Willi; Janger, Jürgen - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2007

diffusion of innovation and productivity growth. It suggests focusing more on these framework conditions, notably by …

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Back to Kyoto? : US participation and the linkage between R&D and climate cooperation

Buchner, Barbara; Carraro, Carlo; Cersosimo, Igor; … - 2002

The US decision not to ratify the Kyoto Protocol and the recent outcomes of the Bonn and Marrakech Conferences of the Parties drastically reduces the effectiveness of the Kyoto Protocol in controlling GHG emissions. The reason is not only the reduced emission abatement in the US, but also the...

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The learning process and technological change in wind power : evidence from China's CDM wind project

Tang, Tian; Popp, David - 2014

The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is a project-based carbon trade mechanism that subsidizes the users of climate-friendly technologies and encourages technology transfer. The CDM has provided financial support for a large share of Chinese wind projects since 2002. Using pooled...

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The best versus the rest : the global productivity slowdown, divergence across firms and the role of public policy

Andrews, Dan; Criscuolo, Chiara; Gál, Peter - 2016

In this paper, we aim to bring the debate on the global productivity slowdown – which has largely been conducted from a … macroeconomic perspective – to a more micro-level. We show that a particularly striking feature of the productivity slowdown is not … so much a lower productivity growth at the global frontier, but rather rising labour productivity at the global frontier …

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Automation with heterogeneous agents : the effect on consumption inequality

Santini, Tommaso - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle - 2022 - This version: November 3, 2022

In this paper, I study technological change as a candidate for the observed increase in consumption inequality in the United States. I build an incomplete market model with educational choice combined with a task-based model on the production side. I consider two channels through which...

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The role of productive and technological capabilities in export dynamics in developing countries

Vergara, Sebastián - In: CEPAL review 133 (2021), pp. 7-30

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The impact of 3D printing on trade and FDI

Abeliansky, Ana L.; Martínez-Zarzoso, Imnaculada; … - 2015

This paper analyzes the effects of 3D printing technologies on the volume of trade and on the structure of FDI. A standard model with firm-specific heterogeneity generates three main predictions. First, 3D printers are introduced in areas with high economic activity that also face high transport...

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The impact of globalization and technology transfer on manufacturing employment and skills in Ethiopia

Haile, Getinet Astatike; Srour, Ilina; Vivarelli, Marco - 2013

There is a dearth of research on the impact of technological change on employment in the context of least developed countries (LDCs) embarking on globalization, which enhances the prospect of direct technological imports or embodied technological transfer. Using a sample of 1,940 enterprises...

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