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The Policy Brief addresses the following question: To what extent the high-growth of current innovative R&D-intensive SMEs can drive the envisaged structural change of the EU economy towards high R&D intensive sectors? It aims to contribute to the debate about how to set the right priorities and...
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will allow for greater food consumption. To help reaching the goal of improved wheat productivity for global food security … farming productivity. To scope the issue, the JRC organised a workshop on "Wheat productivity in the EU: determinants and … analysis of these factors affecting wheat yields and productivity in Europe is now a priority in order to clarify present and …
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This paper examines the links between innovation and productivity in service enterprises. For this purpose, we use … structural model. Our results indicate that innovation in service enterprises is linked to higher productivity. In all three … countries analysed, among the innovation types that we consider, the strongest link between innovation and productivity was …
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productivity performance of large European R&D Multinational Enterprises (MNEs). Based on the worldwide subsidiaries of these firms … from globalisation on firms’ R&D productivity, especially in the US, while a negative impact for industrial diversification …
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This paper discusses the link between R&D and productivity across the European industrial and service sectors. The …. First, the R&D stock has a significant positive impact on labour productivity; this general result is largely consistent … (subsidies, fiscal incentives, etc.) in support of private R&D. However, R&D investment is not the sole source of productivity …
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The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between a firm's R&D activities and its productivity using a …'s productivity, with an overall elasticity of about 0.125; this general result is largely consistent with previous literature in … impact on productivity of their R&D investments, at least as regards top European R&D investors. …
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by labour productivity. To this end, the stochastic frontier technique is used on a unique unbalanced longitudinal … firms. From a policy perspective, the results of this study suggest that – if the aim is to leverage firms’ productivity … other hand, corporate R&D in the low-tech sector is found to have a minor effect in explaining productivity. Instead …
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This report elaborates five case studies of good practices of technology-enabled services for independent living of older adults at home from the 14 obtained in the deliverable 1 of the ICT-AGE project. The aim is to obtain policy lessons studying a group of variables related with the creation...
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, the European Semester and the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing. We found 14 different, mature … at home, improve the productivity of carers, enable better quality of care, and generate savings, contributing to the …
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to become large firms and (global) leading R&D investors. Accordingly, a broad R&D and innovation (policy) strategy is … innovation-intensity across firm-sized classes. …
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