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Innovation and Productivity in SMEs : Empirical Evidence for Italy

Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2008

Innovation in SMEs exhibits some peculiar features that most traditional indicators of innovation activity do not … Italian SMEs from the "Survey on Manufacturing Firms" conducted by Mediocredito-Capitalia covering the period 1995-2003. The … process innovation. Among SMEs, larger and older firms seem to be less productive …

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Free-Riding Yankees : Canada and the Panama Canal

Galiani, Sebastián; Jaramillo, Luis F.; Uribe-Castro, Mateo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We study the impact of the Panama Canal on the development of Canada's manufacturing sector in the years from 1900 to 1939. Using newly digitized county-level data from the Census of Manufactures and a market-access approach, we exploit the plausibly exogenous nature of this historical episode...

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Moonshot : Public R&D and Growth

Kantor, Shawn Everett; Whalley, Alexander T. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We estimate the long-term effect of public R&D on growth in manufacturing by analyzing new data from the Cold War era Space Race. We develop a novel empirical strategy that leverages US-Soviet rivalry in space technology to isolate windfall R&D spending. Our results demonstrate that public R&D...

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