Monte Carlo based robustness test is proposed which compares the elasticity of domestic productivity with respect to foreign … larger and explain more of the variation in productivity across countries than if true' bilateral trade patterns are employed …

that their functional form of how foreign R&D affects domestic productivity via imports is probably incorrect. We provide …

R&D output to capture the contribution of R&D (direct and spilled-over) to regional productivity at the industry level …. The results suggest that interregional knowledge spillovers and their productivity effects are to a substantial degree …) produce interregional knowledge spillovers that have positive and highly significant productivity effects. The study, moreover …

firms' innovations on firms' productivity growth. Using the firm level data on innovation activity combined with firms … as a result of firm's R&D do contribute substantially to firm's total factor productivity growth. And third, foreign …

&D) spending and the productivity of firms. The most widely employed frameworks are the production function and the associated … productivity framework. In these settings, productivity growth is related to expenditures on R&D, and an attempt is made to … estimate statistically the part of productivity growth that can be attributed to R&D activities. This article surveys the …

This paper studies the effect of R&D spillovers on R&D spending and productivity in a sample of German manufacturing … firms. Using panel estimation techniques, the results suggest that spillovers affect industries in a heterogeneous manner … racing phenomena. Moreover, in high-technology industries spillovers have a productivity-enhancing effect in addition to …