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The effect of innovative SMEs' growth to the structural renewal of the EU economy - A projection to the year 2020 –

Moncada-Paterno-Castello, Pietro; Voigt, Peter - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2013

The Policy Brief addresses the following question: To what extent the high-growth of current innovative R&D-intensive SMEs can drive the envisaged structural change of the EU economy towards high R&D intensive sectors? It aims to contribute to the debate about how to set the right priorities and...

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Innovation and Productivity in Services: Evidence from Germany, Ireland and the United Kingdom

Peters, Bettina; Riley, Rebecca; Siedschlag, Iulia; … - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2014

This paper examines the links between innovation and productivity in service enterprises. For this purpose, we use … micro data from the Community Innovation Survey 2008 in Germany, Ireland and the United Kingdom, and estimate an augmented … structural model. Our results indicate that innovation in service enterprises is linked to higher productivity. In all three …

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Corporate R&D and firm efficiency: Evidence from Europe’s top R&D investors

Kumbhakar, Subal C.; Ortega-Argilés, Raquel; Potters, … - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2010

The main objective of this study is to investigate the impact of corporate R&D activities on firm performance, measured by labour productivity. To this end, the stochastic frontier technique is used on a unique unbalanced longitudinal dataset on top European R&D investors over the period...

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Volumes of Evidence - Examining Technical Change Last Century Through a New Lens

Alexopoulos, Michelle; Cohen, Jon - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2010

expenditures, innovation counts, and productivity figures. We find, among other things, the following: the pattern and nature of … technical change described by our indicators is, on the whole, consistent with that of other measures; they represent innovation …

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Land Misallocation and Productivity

Restuccia, Diego; Santaeulalia-Llopis, Raul - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2015

Using detailed household-farm level data from Malawi, we measure real farm total factor productivity (TFP) controlling for a wide array of factor inputs, land quality, and transitory shocks. The distribution of farm TFP has substantial dispersion but factor inputs are roughly evenly spread among...

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Explaining Educational Attainment across Countries and over Time

Restuccia, Diego; Vandenbroucke, Guillaume - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2011

Consider the following facts. In 1950 the richest ten-percent of countries attained an average of 8.1 years of schooling whereas the poorest ten-percent of countries attained 1.3 years, a 6-fold difference. By 2005, the difference in schooling declined to 2-fold. The fact is that schooling has...

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Explaining Educational Attainment across Countries and over Time

Restuccia, Diego; Vandenbroucke, Guillaume - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2013

Consider the following facts. In 1950 the richest ten-percent of countries attained an average of 8 years of schooling whereas the poorest ten-percent of countries attained 1.3 years, a 6-fold difference. By 2005, the difference in schooling declined to 2-fold. The fact is that schooling has...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010850127

Explaining Educational Attainment across Countries and over Time

Restuccia, Diego; Vandenbroucke, Guillaume - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2014

Consider the following facts. In 1950, the richest countries attained an average of 8 years of schooling whereas the poorest countries 1.3 years, a large 6-fold difference. By 2005, the difference in schooling declined to 2-fold because schooling increased faster in poor than in rich countries....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010850131

Explaining Educational Attainment across Countries and over Time

Restuccia, Diego; Vandenbroucke, Guillaume - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2013

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Factor Misallocation and Development

Restuccia, Diego - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2013

The large differences in income per capita across countries are mostly explained by differences in total factor productivity (TFP). This article summarizes the evidence on the importance of resource allocation across productive units in explaining the observed differences in TFP across countries.

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