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country's share of innovation and raises the rate of productivity growth. Although the non-implementing country experiences a …This paper studies how national research subsidies affect productivity growth and national welfare through adjustments … tension in the firm-level innovation location decision between accessing technical knowledge and sourcing low-cost high …
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We design a conceptual framework for linking two approaches: the literature on absorptive capacity and the literature on spatial knowledge spillovers. Regions produce new knowledge, but only part of it is efficiently adopted in the economy; the share of efficiently adopted technology depends on...
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The paper aims at estimating the innovation impact of the vertical integration of knowledge intensive business services … manufacturing innovation is then estimated. By merging OECD data on sectoral R&D and input-output tables with sectoral patent … - France, Germany, Italy and the UK - spanning from the mid-90s to the mid-00s. The more innovative sectors are actually those …
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We analyze the spatial diffusion of knowledge in laser technology in West Germany from 1960, when this technology began, until 2005. Laser technology research has been nearly exclusively conducted in regions that are home to a university with a physics or electrical engineering department, an...
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productivity. In these regressions we included some standard control variables such as wage efficiency, educational level, and … vehicles, and non-electrical machinery have become more efficient in terms of OIs and TIs and thus improved productivity … factors on productivity. Thus, overall SMEs as well as large firms behave similarly in terms of the established relationships …
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innovation on firm survival and firm productivity, which constitute the two main channels through which innovation drives growth …-linearity and volatility in the gains from R&D/innovation, particularly in terms of its effects on firm survival and productivity … perspectives that inform the empirical models allow for heterogeneity in the effects of R&D/innovation on firm survival and …
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Does FDI affect productivity growth, innovation, and knowledge sourcing activities of domestic firms? This study … of FDI entry on local incumbents' TFP and labour productivity growth in the short term. The effect on productivity does … not depend on the local firms' distance to the productivity frontier. However, there are positive spillovers on process …
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There is no shortage of dialogues and commentaries extolling the need for more innovation toregenerate sagging national … productivity growth. However, hard evidence on whether or notinnovation makes a difference is largely absent because most firm …, or new managerial, operational or marketing method on the firm’s future productivity. In our context, we define these as …
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innovation on firm survival and firm productivity, which constitute the two main channels through which innovation drives growth …-linearity and volatility in the gains from R&D/innovation, particularly in terms of its effects on firm survival and productivity … perspectives that inform the empirical models allow for heterogeneity in the effects of R&D/innovation on firm survival and …
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statistically significant evidence of the expected labor-friendly nature of innovation. More in detail, neither R&D nor investment …
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