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The impact of innovation activities on productivity and firm growth: evidence from Brazil

Goedhuys, Micheline - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2007

clients, human capital development, ICT usage, product innovation and learning by exporting, with an R&D effect only in the …Using micro data from Brazilian manufacturing firms, this paper investigates the impact of a wide set of innovation … long run. Though the intensity with which firms engage in these innovation activities is sector dependent, innovation …

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Understanding multilevel interactions in economic development

Goedhuys, Micheline; Srholec, Martin - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2010

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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What drives productivity in Tanzanian manufacturing firms: technology or institutions?

Goedhuys, Micheline; Janz, Norbert; Mohnen, Pierre - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2006

the importance of technological variables - such as R&D, education and training, innovation, foreign ownership, licensing …

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Public R&D Subsidies and Productivity: Evidence from Firm-Level Data in Quebec

Baghana, Rufin - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2010

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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Knowledge-based productivity in low-tech industries: evidence from firms in developing countries.

Goedhuys, Micheline; Janz, Norbert; Mohnen, Pierre - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008

Using firm level data from five countries - Brazil, Ecuador, South Africa, Tanzania and Bangladesh - this paper examines the knowledge-based determinants of productivity of firms active in food processing, textiles, and garments and leather products. In particular, it seeks to investigate the...

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