This book focuses on technological policies, in other words all public interventions intended to influence the intensity, composition and direction of technological innovations within a given entity (region, country or group of countries). The editor has gathered together many of the leading...

This paper consists in a detailed robustness investigation of the Crépon, Duguet and Mairesse [1998] (CDM) econometric framework, which encompasses as a reduced form equation the production function extended to R&D, as pioneered by Zvi Griliches. We focus on the sensitivity of the estimated...

[fre] Pour évaluer les effets des investissements de Recherche et Développement (R-D) sur la productivité des entreprises et secteurs d'activité, plusieurs approches ont été adoptées par les économètres. Même si elles relèvent d'une approche commune, peu d'études sont tout à fait...

This paper proposes a framework to account for innovation similar to the usual accounting framework in production analysis and a measure of innovativity comparable to that of total factor productivity. This innovation accounting framework is illustrated using micro-aggregated firm data from the...