The importance of knowledge spillovers for achieving innovation and economic growth is widely recognized. It is not straightforward which type of spillovers is most effective: intra-sectoral spillovers or inter-sectoral spillovers. We investigate this controversy using a model of regional...

Toepassing van het marktwerkingsmodel van Appelbaum op de Nederlandse industrie. In het model van Appelbaum staan het gedrag en de prestaties van bedrijven centraal. Hiervoor worden twee kengetallen gebruikt: de conjecturele elasticiteit en de Lerner-index. De conjecturele elasticiteit meet de...

The importance of knowledge spillovers for achieving innovation and economic growth is widely recognised. It is not straightforward which type of spillovers is most effective: intra-sectoral spillovers or inter-sectoral spillovers. We investigated this controversy using a model of regional...

Dit rapport gaat over marktwerking in de bouw in de periode 1983-1993. Met behulp van een marktwerkingsmodel wordt op basis van de prijsopslag afgeleid of bedrijven concurreren of samenspannen. Het blijkt dat in de bouw overwegend concurrentie plaatsvindt. De belangrijkste oorzaak hiervoor is...

Behandelt de economische effecten van subsidies voor research & ontwikkeling aan bedrijven. De impact van die extra subsidies op middellange termijn wordt geschat met behulp van het PRISMA-model SCALES.

This article presents evidence on the links between R&D and productivity for manufacturing firms in the Netherlands. The study provides estimates of the output elasticity of the R&D stock and of the private rate of return to R&D. The article applies the methodology used by Hall and Mairesse...

A series of empirical studies has identified that a pervasive shift in the industrial structure away from large corporations and towards small enterprises has taken place between the mid-1970s and early 1990s. This shift occurred in virtually every single leading industrial country. The...

A series of empirical studies has identified that a pervasive shift in the industrial structure away from large corporations and towards small enterprises has taken place between the mid-1970s and early 1990s. This shift occurred in virtually every single leading industrial country. The...