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Using micro data from Brazilian manufacturing firms, this paper investigates the impact of a wide set of innovation … clients, human capital development, ICT usage, product innovation and learning by exporting, with an R&D effect only in the … long run. Though the intensity with which firms engage in these innovation activities is sector dependent, innovation …
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This paper examines the impact of investment in research and innovation on Australian market sector productivity. While … productivity. Moreover, the paper pays special attention to the role played by public support for research and innovation in the … innovation policy as they provide insights into possible productivity gains from government funding reallocations. …
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This paper studies the role of efficiency in a firm’s decision to contract out. Emphasis is on the heterogeneous nature of firms and when firms are only considering outsourcing to domestic suppliers. Firm-level data on Australian manufacturing reveal an ordering of efficiency between firms...
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knowledge flows in order to understand how access to both foreign products and technologies, together, influences innovation …
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National framework conditions mediate the effect of technological capabilities of firms on their productivity. Although this has been recognized in the literature for a long time, a quantitative test that explicitly considers this hypothesis has been lacking. Using a World Bank datasets of about...
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the importance of technological variables - such as R&D, education and training, innovation, foreign ownership, licensing …
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This paper analyses empirically the impacts of public R&D grants on private R&D investments and on the productivity growth of the manufacturing firms in a context where fiscal incentives are present. Using the conditional semiparametric differenceindifferences estimator on longitudinal data from...
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