models suggest that a shortfall in productivity-enhancing investments temporarily slows technological progress, creating a …-level exposure to the 2008-9 financial crisis, I show that tight credit reduced investments in productivity-enhancement, and has … 12% higher today if productivity-enhancing investments had grown at pre-crisis rates. …

The paper aims to enrich the discussion on the Research and Innovation Strategies for Smart Specialisation (RIS3) and … Specialisation and regional innovation. The empirical approach of this paper is to apply a simply pooled OLS-regression with … productivity as an independent variable, various exogenous variables on Smart Specialisation, dummies on EU macro-regions, and time …

ultimately affect innovation and productivity in Uruguayan service firms compared to manufacturing firms. The results show that … productivity in services, but only ICT affects productivity in manufacturing. The absence of investment in ICT is associated with …Several studies have highlighted information and communications technology (ICT) as a driver of firm productivity in …

Migration policies need to consider how immigration affects investment behavior and productivity, and how these effects … vary with the type of migration. College-educated immigrants may do more to stimulate foreign direct investment and … research and development than low-skilled immigrants, and productivity effects would be expected to be highest for immigrants …