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Geographic proximity and firm-university innovation linkages: evidence from Great Britain

Abramovsky, Laura; Simpson, Helen - Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) - 2009

<p>We investigate evidence for spatially mediated knowledge transfer from university research. We examine whether firms locate their R&D labs near universities, and whether those that do are more likely to co-operate with, or source knowledge from universities. We find that pharmaceutical firms...</p>

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Employment, innovation and productivity: evidence from Italian microdata

Hall, Bronwyn; Lotti, Francesca; Mairesse, Jacques - Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) - 2006

presents some empirical evidence on the effects of innovation on employment growth and therefore on firms' productivity with … stemming from process innovation. The sources of employment growth during the period are split equally between the net … contribution of product innovation and the net contribution from sales growth of old products. However, the contribution of product …

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University research and the location of business R&D

Abramovsky, Laura; Harrison, Rupert; Simpson, Helen - Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) - 2007

We investigate the relationship between the location of private sector R&D labs and university research departments in Great Britain. We combine establishment-level data on R&D activity with information on levels and changes in research quality from the Research Assessment Exercise. The...

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Understanding co-operative R&D activity: evidence from four European countries

Abramovsky, Laura; Kremp, Elisabeth; López, Alberto; … - Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) - 2005

This paper investigates co-operative research activity by firms using data from the 3rd Community Innovation Survey for …

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