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This Policy Brief presents recent results on the impact of training, marketing and design expenditures on European firms' innovative performance. The new evidence drawn from recent JRC research suggests that these expenditures, in combination with R&D, are crucial drivers of innovation. Drawing...
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The Policy Brief addresses the following question: To what extent the high-growth of current innovative R&D-intensive SMEs can drive the envisaged structural change of the EU economy towards high R&D intensive sectors? It aims to contribute to the debate about how to set the right priorities and...
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The current paper investigates the long-term global effects of crops productivity changes under different climate …
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will allow for greater food consumption. To help reaching the goal of improved wheat productivity for global food security … farming productivity. To scope the issue, the JRC organised a workshop on "Wheat productivity in the EU: determinants and … analysis of these factors affecting wheat yields and productivity in Europe is now a priority in order to clarify present and …
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This report presents the findings of the seventh survey on trends in business R&D investment. These are based on 187 responses of mainly larger companies from the 1000 EU-based companies in the 2011 EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard. These 187 companies are responsible for R&D investment...
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Information and communication technologies (ICT) are believed to play a central role in determining productivity … log of productivity and regress it on a series of explanatory variables, including ICT investment, the presence of … the work-force is a strong determinant of productivity (either alone or when interacted with other potentially …
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the 2000s. Using novel data, this paper examines nationalization and its effect on productivity. First, we document …-producing developing countries. We show that nationalization brings significant productivity losses. Then, we focus on Venezuela …, presenting new extensive and detailed data. In Venezuela, productivity fell sharply immediately ahead of nationalization. We …
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Until very recently and despite human capital’s pre-eminent and empirically established contribution to economic growth, Indian policymakers planning for economic development concentrated largely on issues of capital, labour and, to a lesser extent, technology. This paper argues that India’s...
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the dynamics of labor productivity (value added per worker, a synthetic measure of capital deepening, labor quality and … total factor productivity) and of employment. We find that the ongoing slowdown in EMEs is largely structural, but there is …-sector productivity improvements. The scope for further reform and reform priorities differs across countries. In the longer run other …
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multifactor productivity in China's industrial sectors by further developing the genuine savings method of the World Bank. The … final consumers. The capital output elasticity in the productivity estimation was adjusted based on these tables. The … impacts on their productivity during the past decades is still quite clear. …
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