I summarize the main results and policy insights from the 2011 EIB Conference on “Productivity and Long-Term Growth … Potential in Europe.” Europe's need for productivity growth has become more pressing against the backdrop of huge government … enhanced by removing overly protective elements of the patent system. Education attainment and quality as well as life …

Recent development and growth accounting studies have established that total factor productivity is an important source …, within the Cobb-Douglas framework, it weighs evidence of the two alternative explanations of total factor productivity …

The growth of agricultural productivity is widely believed to be low. But this study finds the productivity growth rate … may be an advantage.Martin and Mitra examine the growth and convergence of total factor productivity in agriculture and … rarely tested view that the rate of growth in agricultural productivity is invariably low. But Martin and Mitra find that the …

knowledge, the productivity growth experienced during the Industrial Revolution would have eventually diminished, as did growth … from previous productivity revolutions (i.e. agriculture, expansions of trade). Yet scientific knowledge, as distinct from … technology or economic productivity, is often not explicitly included in models of long run growth. Making this distinction …

This paper looks at productivity growth rates in Malta and Cyprus and proposes policies as to how these island states … countries might augment their productivity and competitiveness. We identify three possible growth strategies for the islands: an … productivity yardsticks. We also evaluate trends in Gross Value Added (GVA), employment levels, and Unit Labour Costs (ULCs) in the …

when we include R&D moments in the estimation. Finally, we study the link between firm heterogeneity and R&D subsidies, and …