Showing 1 - 10 of 168,399
Recent research conducted by the IDB shows that innovation positively affects productivity growth in the Latin American … dynamics at play in the service sector in the region and the relationship between productivity and innovation in services (as … regarding innovation in services is related, at least in part, to uncertainty with respect to how innovation in services …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009644856
This chapter examines a number of aspects of defense R&D, including: mechanisms — design competitions, and independent R&D subsidies — used by the US government to encourage firms to invest their own funds in defense R&D; theory and evidence concerning both the private and social benefits of,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014024416
Innovation in agriculture differs from innovation elsewhere in the economy in several important ways. In this chapter … mean that the nature and extent of market failures in the provision of agricultural research and innovation differ from …. Informal innovation and technical discovery processes characterized agriculture from its beginnings some 10,000 years ago …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025149
towards vertical specialization as well as many horizontal mergers. We discuss trends in the productivity of pharmaceutical … research and incentives for innovation. We then summarize the pricing and marketing of drugs in the US and several other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025576
also find that technology and innovation have a positive impact on the productivity of firms in Cambodia. …The paper examines the innovation and competitiveness of firms, especially with regard to the channels of technology … transfer and the nature of innovation activities that influence firm performance in the Cambodian economy. Despite the growing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013533216
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013555055
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014233532
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014233889
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014235332
robust advancements in labor productivity. Next, the primary drivers of labor productivity growth and convergence across many … economies were driven by total factor productivity, labor quality, and digital transformation. Lastly, digital transformation … not only directly contributed to the augmentation of labor productivity, as quantified through growth accounting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014339316