knowledge spillovers on manufacturing total factor productivity (TFP) in China - at the level of Chinese regions - through the …The transformation of China into a knowledge based economy is currently one of the most intensively debated research … question whether TFP in China is increasingly based on knowledge production and diffusion. Relying on the regional KCM as …

the pharmaceutical industries across 29 provinces in the People's Republic of China (PRC) over the period 1998-2007. We … for promoting productivity and economic growth. …

We investigate the drivers of firm level productivity in catching-up economies by jointly estimating its relationship … competition and innovation have a simultaneous positive effect on labour productivity in terms of either sales or value added per … productivity. …

in R&D in order to produce innovations. These innovations in turn improve the firm's future productivity level, pro … firms that engage in R&D, process and product innovations create a significant improvement in their productivity. The cost … higher than the one time gain in firm productivity. …

In this paper, we shed new light on the productivity impact of breakthrough patents, as well as their role in the … variability of productivity across countries. We use text analysis and machine learning-based estimates of the number of … analysis, the slowdown in innovation activity has a clear temporal connection with the later slowdown in productivity in the …