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, and that they be characterized by a high share of industry-specific innovations in output growth. According to these …
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The regulatory environment in a country is an important factor that affects firm performance. This study investigates the impact of a particular regulation - license requirements for certain firm activities - on the innovation performance of Indian firms in the 1990s. Using a unique firm-level...
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innovation and, thus, economic growth. During the past three decades, countries have experimented with some of these new …
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The slower productivity growth in Canada relative to that experienced in the United States in the second half of the … development. A key issue is whether this slower productivity growth is broadly-based, which would imply a societal … productivity growth in Canada and the United States in the 1990s. They find that the productivity growth gap in the 1990s at both …
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the information and communications technology sector to productivity growth in Canada and the United States; the Irish …
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Old elites can block changes, but not all do. Why is it that stronger elites may allow more changes than weaker elites? Why do economies with larger stocks of natural resources not grow faster than economies poorer in natural resources? We argue that old elites hold some power to extract rents...
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The regulatory environment in a country is an important factor that affects firm performance. This study investigates the impact of a particular regulation - license requirements for certain firm activities - on the innovation performance of Indian firms in the 1990s. Using a unique firm-level...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013373854
innovation and, thus, economic growth. During the past three decades, countries have experimented with some of these new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013199556
Industrial policy should vary with the specific conditions of the various phases of a long wave of economic development. At considerable lag from world technological leaders the economy can get to "a structural trap". To escape this trap, the active state economic policy has to be based on the...
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In this report, we look at the evolution of Europe's R&D intensity gap relative to the US and its main competitors, using data from repeated waves (2002-2010) of the Industrial Scoreboard, which collects data from top R&D performers in Europe and in the rest of the world (US, Japan, BRIC, Asian...
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