The present paper studies the relationship between R&D investment and firm productivity growth by explicitly accounting …. Our results suggest that: (i) R&D investment increases firm productivity with an average elasticity of 0.15; (ii) the … impact of R&D investment on firm productivity is differential at different levels of R&D intensity - the productivity …

last decades. This paper tests the hypothesis that the lower European productivity performance in comparison with the US … can be explained not only by a lower level of corporate R&D investment, but also by a lower capacity to translate R …&D investment into productivity gains. The proposed microeconometric estimates are based on a unique longitudinal database covering …

2006 EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard, the size differential between R&D performers in the EU and US is more closely …

target of R&D investment, suggests that firms in hightech sectors are still far ahead in terms of the impact on productivity …

as a preferred target of R&D investment, suggests that firms in high-tech sectors are still far ahead in terms of the …