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Dynamic models of R&D, innovation and productivity:Panel data evidence for Dutch and French manufacturing

by Waldimir Raymond; Jacques Mairesse; Pierre Mohnen and Franz palm UNU-MERIT Working Paper no.2013/25, May 2013 This paper introduces dynamics in the R&D to innovation and innovation to productivity relationships, which have mostly been estimated on cross-sectional data. It considers four nonlinear dynamic simultaneous equations models that include individual effects and idiosyncratic errors correlated across [...]

R&D and productivity: In search of complementarity between research and development activities

by Andres barge Gil and Alberto Lopez MPRA Paper no. 43808, January 2013 The link between R&D and productivity has been widely analyzed. However, these innovation activities have been considered as a whole. This paper analyzes the di¤er-entiated e¤ect of research and development on productivity and tests the existence of complementarity between these activities. We [...]

On International Spillovers

By  Bianco,Dominique and Niang,Abdou-Aziz MPRA Paper no.41046, February 2012 This study investigates the role of international spillovers in generating productivity gains for a panel of 24 OECD countries during the period between 1971 and 2004. We use recent techniques developed in a common factor framework to characterize the global interdependence implied by international spillovers and [...]

Monetary policy and endogenous market structure in a schumpeterian economy

by Angus C , Chu and Lei Ji MPRA Paper no.41027, August 2012 In this study, we develop a monetary Schumpeterian growth model with endogenous market structure (EMS) to explore the e¤ects of monetary policy on the number of .rms, .rm size, economic growth and social welfare. EMS leads to richer implications and di¤erent results [...]

Leadership and Creativity in Research and Development Laboratories:A New Scale for Leader Behaviours

By Vishal Gupta IIMC Working Paper No.710/August 2012 Using a qualitative approach Gupta and Singh (in press) developed an inventory of leader behaviors that promote employee creativity. In this study, we construct and validate scales that can measure the leader behaviors proposed by Gupta and Singh (in press) quantitatively. We surveyed 584 scientists working in [...]

Do Exporting Firms in the People’s Republic of China innovate

by Ganeshan Wignaraja ADBI Working Paper no.365, July 2012 his paper assesses factors driving firm-level export performance in Asia’s super exporter—The People’s Republic of China (PRC). While early studies suggested that innovation was important, there has been little research on opening up the black box of technology at firm-level in the PRC, the author undertakes [...]

R&D Spillovers, Innovation, and Entry

by Massoud Khazabi and Nguyen Quyen MPRA Paper No.39460, July 2011 The paper extends a theoratical framework to analyze the impact of R&D spillovers on entry and the resulting equilibrium market structure. It is shown that the degree of spillovers plays a fundamental role on the number of firms entering the market, their R&D activities, [...]

Internationalisation of ICT R&D in Asia vis a vis the world regions

by Daniel Nepelski and Giuditta De Prato MPRA Paper No.39281, November 2011 We analyse the internationalisation of ICT R&D in Asia and compare it with the other world regions. Despite the strong linkages between Japan, the US and the EU, Asia seems to be very attractive as a location for R&D activities. It is also [...]

Australian Economic Papers Volume 51, Issue 2 , June 2012

Original Articles HYSTERESIS HYPOTHESIS IN UNEMPLOYMENT AND LABOUR FORCE PARTICIPATION RATES: EVIDENCE FROM AUSTRALIAN STATES AND TERRITORIES (pages 71–84) DE-CHIH LIU, CHIN-HWA SUN and PEI-CHIEN LIN SMALL OPEN ECONOMIES AND MEAN REVERTING NOMINAL EXCHANGE RATES (pages 85–95) JOSTEIN TVEDT THE JOB CREATION EFFECT OF R&D EXPENDITURES (pages 96–113) FRANCESCO BOGLIACINO and MARCO VIVARELLI URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aepa.2012.51.issue-2/issuetoc

Technological capabilities and cost efficiency as antecedents of foreign market entry

by Fabrizio Cesaroni; Marco S Giarratana and Ester Martinez-Ros UNU_MERIT Working Paper No. 2012-049 This work explores which factors increase firms’ propensity to enter into international markets. The study draws on the resource-based view and assesses the effect played by firms’ technological capabilities and cost structures on entry. While many research papers consider those two [...]

INTERNATIONAL R&D SPILLOVERS AND PRODUCTIVITY TRENDS IN THE ASIAN MIRACLE ECONOMIES

by James B. Ang  and Jakob B. Madsen Discussion Paper 03/12 This paper examines the importance of the domestic R&D stock and foreign knowledge spillovers on total factor productivity for six Asian miracle economies over the period from 1955 to 2006. The productivity effects of international knowledge spillovers through the following channels are considered: imports, [...]

R&D intensity and market valuation of firm: a study of R&D incurring manufacturing firms in India

by Pramod Kumar Naik; Krishnan Narayanan and Puja Padhi MPRA Paper No.37299, February 2012 The present study examines the impact of R&D expenditure on market valuation of firm using Tobin’s q. The study uses firm level data for Indian manufacturing sector obtained from Prowess  database of CMIE for the period 2001-2010. The study forms an unbalanced [...]

The R&D Scenario in Indian Pharmaceutical Industry

by Reji K Joseph RIS Discussion Paper No.176, December 2011 A set of policy reforms have been introduced in the Indian pharmaceutical sector since mid-1990s, aimed at incentivizing the private sector R&D. Patent reforms was the most significant policy reform. An implicit assumption that the Indian pharmaceutical firms have become capable of developing new drugs [...]

Research Policy Volume 41, Issue 3, April 2012

Analyzing the evidence of an IPR take-off in China and India Manuel Mira Godinho, Vítor Ferreira How does openness affect the importance of incentives for innovation? Xiaolan Fu Knowledge flows in the solar photovoltaic industry: Insights from patenting by Taiwan, Korea, and China Ching-Yan Wu, John A. Mathews Technological innovation capabilities in the thin film [...]

Foreign R&D Centres in India: An Analysis of their Size, Structure and Implications

by Rakesh Basant and Sunil Mani IIMA WP No.2012-01-06, January 2012 The study measures the contribution of MNCs to the generation of innovations from India. The focus is on innovations that are carried out in foreign R&D Centres. After having mapped out the size of this sector, the study develops a way of classifying them [...]

The Interdependence of R&D Activity and Debt Financing of Young Firms

by Helmut Fryges; Karsten Kohn and Katrin Ulrich IZA DP No.6217, December 2011 We investigate the interdependence of debt financing and R&D activities of young firms. Using micro-level data of the KfW/ZEW Start-up Panel, our estimation results show that firm characteristics are more important than personal characteristics of the founders for explaining young firms’ leverage, [...]

European Economic Review Volume 56, Issue 1, January 2012

Contents 1. IFC – Editorial Board 2. Sick pay provision in experimental labor markets Original Research Article Peter Duersch, Jörg Oechssler, Radovan Vadovic 3. The costs of hiring skilled workers Original Research Article Marc Blatter, Samuel Muehlemann, Samuel Schenker 4. The time-varying integration of euro area government bond markets Original Research Article Lorenzo Pozzi, Guido [...]

Arab Regional Systems of Innovation: Characteristics and Implications

By Samia Satti Osman Mohamed Nour UNU_MERIT WP No. 2011-058 This paper employs both the descriptive and comparative approaches and uses the definition of systems of innovation used in the literature to discuss the systems of innovation in the Arab region. We explain that the two common characteristics of poor Arab regional systems of innovation [...]

Innovation and firm-level productivity: econometric evidence from Bangladesh and Pakistan

by Abdul waheed UNU-MERIT WP No. 2011-061 The labour productivity impact of innovation of manufacturing firms in Bangladesh and Pakistan, a highly neglected region for such studies compared with the developed world, is studied in this paper by using World Bank Enterprise Survey data conducted in 2006. To achieve this end, we apply the Cobb-Douglas [...]

FDI, Size, and Innovation: Influences on Firm-Level Exports in East Asia

Ganeshan Wignaraja TMD WORKING PAPER SERIES NO. 047 Drawing on recent trade and technology theories, this study examines the influence of several factors on the probability of exporting in electronics firms in China, Thailand, and the Philippines. It explores the validity of two alternative proxies for innovation – R&D expenditures and a technology index representing [...]

Complementarity between in house R&D and technology purchasing:evidence from Chinese manufacturing firms

By Jun Hou, Pierre Mohnen UNU-MERIT WP 2011-048 In order to catch up with the technological frontier, firms, especially in developing countries, try to acquire technological advancement through internal R&D efforts as well as through external technology sourcing activities. This study tests the existence of a complementarity between in-house R&D and external technology acquisition in [...]

The internationalization of R&D

By Bronwyn H. Hall UNU-MERIT WP 2011-049 This paper surveys what we know about the internationalization of business R&D spending. I examine three specific questions about the global changes in R&D activity: First, what is the evidence that R&D is becoming more internationalized (more footloose)? Second, what are the factors that influence the choice of [...]

Complementarity between in-house R&D and technology purchasing: evidence from Chinese manufacturing firms

Jun Hou and Pierre Mohnen UNU-MERIT Working Papers #2011-048 In order to catch up with the technological frontier, firms, especially in developing countries, try to acquire technological advancement through internal R&D efforts as well as through external technology sourcing  activities. This study tests the existence of a complementarity between in-house R&D and external technology acquisition [...]

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