We investigate the role of industrial structure in labor productivity growth in U.S. cities between 1880 and 1930 using … faster productivity growth but that diversity only had positive effects on productivity performance in large cities. We … estimate that this resulted in significant gains in labor productivity. …

industry structure and innovation should affect PDAs' strategies. Finally, the paper presents conclusions, summarizing results …

China's photovoltaics sector provides an interesting case to examine, if and how the country is aiming at innovation … global PV market, their innovation and production decisions have become crucially important for the global transition towards … technological innovation system for PV in China conducted in this paper shows, that the government has indeed strengthened …

We model how R&D enters the innovation system in four ways (intramural, extramural, cooperative, and spillover … productivity effects of spillovers were at best smaller than intramural R&D productivity effects. We also find that building on the … greater skills and experience of enterprises already undertaking R&D (intensity) raised labour productivity more than …

from globalisation on firms’ R&D productivity, especially in the US, while a negative impact for industrial diversification …This paper aims to assess the impact of both geographic and industrial diversification of economic activities on the … productivity performance of large European R&D Multinational Enterprises (MNEs). Based on the worldwide subsidiaries of these firms …