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The importance of SMEs in Europe's innovation process can be seen in both the academic and the political arena. Adopted … to their inputs into the innovation process. In particular, we draw attention to SMEs that contribute the most to the …
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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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Based on an original and recent sample representative of the largest R&D corporations in the EU, this paper aims at investigating in a quantitative way the main factors explaining: (i) the decision of firms to increase their R&D investment effort in the near future; (ii) the main drivers...
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manufacturing sectors. To date, companies increasingly rely on outside innovation for new products and processes and have become … more active in licensing and selling results of their innovation to third parties. At the same time, they may rely on the …
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The present paper studies the relationship between R&D investment and firm productivity growth by explicitly accounting for non-linearities in the R&D-productivity relationship and inter-sectoral firm heterogeneity. In order to address these issues, we employ a two step estimation approach, and...
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European Industrial Research and Innovation Scoreboard with the fDi Markets dataset, we find supporting evidence. Increasing …
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that the sunk costs of innovation are lower when collaborating with a research partner, and that a firm's probability of … investing in R&D or innovation increases with the level of productivity, only when collaborating in R&D and innovation. We also … find that the sunk costs of innovation are 1.5 to 3 times lower than the sunk costs of R&D. Additionally, it can be seen …
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appears to be the most suitable model for assessing the impact of R&D and innovation policies over time, as it is the only … sectors and environmental issues, GEM-E3 appears to be the most suitable model for assessing the impact of innovation in clean … energy. For a more detailed modelling of different types of innovation measures, NEMESIS can provide valuable insights thanks …
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The paper investigates the impact that the multinational scope of firms' activities can have on their productivity. First, we argue that such an impact is both direct and indirect, and that the latter is channelled through higher incentives to invest in R&D. Second, we posit that the composition...
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This paper assesses the contribution of skilled employment and labour market conditions to the ability of attracting knowledge intensive and manufacturing greenfield FDI. We carry out our analysis by controlling for a wide range of labour market features, such as the collective bargaining...
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