Ce travail traite de la tradition d'epistemologie en France.

An empirical study of a cross-section sample of 302 firms for the COMPUSTAT II detabase. It explores the relationship between a firm's profitability and other variables, notably its own R&D capital and information and productivity spillovers of R&D executed by other firms.

If capital stock is considered in a broad sense, to include both physical and intellectual capital, the law of diminishing returns may not apply and the higher the investments in intangible assets the higher a country's growth rate. The so-called AK growth models by taking into account both...