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Ark are with The Conference Board and Growth and Development Center of the University of Groningen and Sean Dougherty is … with the OECD. Thanks go to Shannon Mok, Jasminee Persaud, Tony Spera and Johanna von Braun for excellent research …
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The aim of this paper is to broaden the knowledge concerning the development of Finnish firms’ innovation activities … results suggest that Finnish firms invest approximately Eur 1.8 billion in innovation activities outside the traditional R …
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for the Canada-U.S. productivity and income gaps; the importance of skills for innovation and productivity; the diffusion …
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This article, by Ian A. Stewart, is a review of the recently released Industry Canada research volume Productivity …
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Purchasing power parities (PPPs) for R&D expenditure in 19 manufacturing industries are developed for France, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom relative to the United States for the years 1997 and 1987. These PPPs are based on R&D input prices for specific cost categories...
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Productivity and income growth rates and differentials vary widely among OECD countries. In this chapter, Bart van Ark develops a framework for the understanding of these productivity and income differences. The framework breaks GDP per capita into two basic drivers: labour supply and labour...
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This paper investigates the sectoral dynamics of the major economies during the last decade through the lens of the top 1000 R&D investors worldwide and looks at how firms' demographics are related to sector distribution. In doing so, it contributes to the literature on the EU corporate R&D...
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production. Of these, innovation is found to be the most important. Since research and development activity has been historically …
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Innovation is widely recognized as a key ingredient of productivity success. This article by Someshwar Rao, Ashfaq … positive relationship between measures of fundamental innovation, labour productivity and GDP per capita across OECD countries …. The authors paint a nuanced portrait of Canada's innovation performance. The existence of an innovation gap with the …
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development. A key issue is whether this slower productivity growth is broadly-based, which would imply a societal …
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