The slower productivity growth in Canada relative to that experienced in the United States in the second half of the … development. A key issue is whether this slower productivity growth is broadly-based, which would imply a societal … productivity growth in Canada and the United States in the 1990s. They find that the productivity growth gap in the 1990s at both …

. Importantly, the theoretical model captures the strategic behavior between competing firms, its effect on their innovation …

investment in knowledge, and its productivity, looking at sectoral peculiarities which may emerge; to this end, we use a large … positive impact on a firm's productivity, with an overall elasticity of about 0.10; this general result is largely consistent … ahead in terms of the impact on productivity of their R&D investments; moreover, a shift in favour of the service sectors …

I study the effects of basic and applied innovation on a firm's market value and total factor productivity for a panel … with a productivity premium. -- basic innovation ; applied innovation ; patents ; citations ; generality ; market value … of U.S. manufacturing firms. Basicness of innovation is measured by the index of generality proposed by Trajtenberg …

. Importantly, the theoretical model captures the strategic behavior between competing firms, its effect on their innovation …

correlated with changes in total factor productivity. We also analyze a sample of first-time atentees, and find significant … total factor productivity is slightly weaker. Together, these results suggest that patenting is indeed associated with real … findings are robust to alternative measures of size, scope and productivity, and to various sample selection criteria …

Institution examine this issue with a detailed analysis of productivity developments in the U.S. economy in the 1990s. Their main … message is that the although IT is the driving force behind the recent acceleration of labour productivity growth, its impact … little reason to believe productivity gains arising from IT will end in the near future. …

linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million U.S. patents and their citation properties to map the innovation network and its … strength. Past innovation network structures are calculated using citation patterns across technology classes during 1975 … predictive power on future innovation after 1995. This pattern is consistent with the idea that when there is more past upstream …