countries matters for productivity, because a country that imports primarily from technological leaders receives more technology … trade patterns in determining technology flows that affect productivity by using industry level data for machinery goods … imports and productivity in eight OECD countries between 1970-91. First evidence that these countries benefit more from …

total factor productivity and that they impact the degree of Ramp;D spillovers …

total factor productivity and that they impact the degree of Ramp;D spillovers …

total factor productivity growth in Korea, Mexico, and Jordan. Measures of foreign research and development are constructed … the South. The findings show that technology diffusion and productivity gains tend to be regional. Jordan benefits mainly …

The paper examines implications of endogenous growth theory on the relationship between firm productivity, innovation … as well as productivity growth by combining information on firm-level innovation (CIS) with accounting data for a large …, while the results on the link between innovation activity and productivity growth are not robust to different econometric …

productivity growth (the lowest four deciles) are likely to experience significant benefits from successful innovation, while …Using firm-level innovation data for a large sample of Slovenian firms in the period 1996-2002, the paper finds … surprising results that innovation is not benefitting all firms. We find that only manufacturing firms with below average …

productivity. We investigate these phenomena further by examining the relationship between plant-level productivity and firm …-level Ramp;D. We find that (1) the productivity-enhancing effects of parent firm Ramp;D are diminished by geographic distance …) productivity appears to depend on the intensity of parent firm Ramp;D (Ramp;D per plant), not on the total amount; and (3 …