human capital and productivity improvements. While educational attainment is very high, the education system needs to be … persist. Private spending on innovation is very low and Russia underperforms in terms of scientific outputs and patents …. Support for low-tech innovation and technology adoption, especially among SMEs is narrow because of a bias towards large and …

determinants of productivity, we find evidence that firms that have undertaken innovation activities (instrumented variable) and …The aim of this paper is to investigate the determinants of innovation activities and their impact on firm performance … examine the relationship between innovation activities, ownership structure and firm performance we apply instrumental …

What puts productivity spillovers into effect through worker mobility across firms? Productivity difference between the … flows from foreign-owned companies provide productivity gains for the firm. We argue here that skill-relatedness across … employee-employer linked panel data from 2003-2011 imply that productivity gap rules out the effect of foreign spillovers …

Medical innovation enhances labor health, promotes human capital productivity, and influences asset prices. Using a … -- a higher medical innovation shock predicts a higher growth of hours worked and total factor productivity, and firms with … manually collected dataset on drug approvals to identify medical innovation, I first confirm its direct impact on human capital …

stock through firm-sponsored training might lead to more innovation. We test this hypothesis using detailed data on firms …' human capital investments and innovation performance, the Canadian longitudinal linked employer-employee data from 1999 …-2006. Our results, with workplace fixed-effects and allowing for time-varying productivity shocks, demonstrate that more …

. Second, export-market participation was associated with increases in a plant's productivity growth. Third, our analysis … identified the presence of three main mechanisms through which export-market participation raises productivity growth among …

. This study uses the World Bank Enterprise Survey (WBES) 2010 and Compete Caribbean's Productivity Technology Innovation … play a relatively small role and may not even matter for innovation and productivity. …

/methodology/approach For this purpose, a model is specified and estimated in which the total factor productivity of Spanish regions is … explained by business dynamics, innovation, human capital and the level of entrepreneurship in each region. Findings The results …. In addition, the stock of human capital and the promotion of innovation act as catalysts for the productive efficiency of …

barriers and better innovation policies would boost productivity. Effective intergovernmental coordination bodies and a well … to achieving a truly single market limit productivity growth of regions, including the most advanced. Reducing regulatory …

Abstract: To examine the productivity, employment and wage effects of ICT, we apply novel occupation based measures of … changes. Our results support the view that organisational change complements ICT investments in a productivity …-enhancing manner. In particular, the ICT-driven productivity gains are associated with the destruction of routine and non …