Bloom, Nicholas; Draca, Mirko; Van Reenen, John - 2011
We examine the impact of Chinese import competition on patenting, IT, R&D and TFP using a panel of up to half a million … to increases in R&D, patenting, IT and TFP within firms; and second it reallocated employment between firms towards more … account for around 15% of European technology upgrading between 2000-2007. Rising Chinese import competition also led to falls …