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

Investment in research and development (R&D) affects a country's total factor productivity. Recently new theories of … total factor productivity of its trade partners. Following these theoretical developments we estimate the effects of a … country's R&D capital stock and the R&D capital stocks of its trade partners on the country's total factor productivity. We …

sector, the public sector and foreign firms) on multifactor productivity growth of 16 countries from 1980 to 1998. The main … results show that the three sources of knowledge are significant determinants of long-term productivity growth. Further … evidence suggests that several factors determine the extent to which each source of knowledge contributes to productivity …

. The immediate consequence is that research and development and the emergence of technological innovations are naturally … arrival of innovations as the uncertain result of research and development activity. Rather, in this approach, well …

effect of spillovers on research productivity of firms exceeds the structural effect because it includes an active learning … expenditures and internal research expenditures. The findings are consistent with the view that learning expenditures transmit the …