Development Fund (ERDF) aimed at direct investments in R&D correlates with an improvement of firms' productivity in a region …. Conversely, funding aimed at overall Business Support correlates with negative productivity growth rates. In both cases, we … registered an asymmetric impact along the firms' productivity distribution, where a stronger impact can be detected in the first …

"Despite Canada's economic success over the past thirty years, the country's ranking in productivity has continued to … productivity, arguing that it is the lynchpin to prosperity. However, there is growing evidence to the contrary. In Productivity … and Prosperity, Karen Foster zeroes in on the paradox of productivity: that it is the key to economic prosperity and yet …