innovation on firm survival and firm productivity, which constitute the two main channels through which innovation drives growth … productivity. Secondly, we draw attention to recent modeling and estimation effort that reveals novel sources of heterogeneity, non …-linearity and volatility in the gains from R&D/innovation, particularly in terms of its effects on firm survival and productivity …

globalisation the role of global companies within the city-region is critical, and city-regions in turn are seen to drive national … institutional economic theories. -- scale ; cities ; countries ; multinational firms ; globalisation …

We explore the relation between a country's patents and its economic and productivity growth. Consistent with patents …

force, which doubled in the G20 countries as a result of brisk population growth, and rising productivity. Over the next … future growth will be on productivity, whose growth in developed economies has been declining over the past decade. For the … world to maintain the same GDP growth trajectory over the next half century, productivity would need to grow 80% faster than …

Productivity. We endogenize the accrual of the R&D stocks by estimating an R&D investment function. We find that the marginal …