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The impact of innovation activities on productivity and firm growth: evidence from Brazil
Goedhuys, Micheline - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2007
Using micro data from Brazilian manufacturing firms, this paper investigates the impact of a wide set of innovation activities on firms' total factor productivity (TFP) and its subsequent effect on firm growth, measured by sales. Controlling for size and age of the firms, productivity levels and...
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Editor's Overview
Sharpe, Andrew - In: International Productivity Monitor 3 (2001) Fall, pp. 1-2
The third issue of the International Productivity Monitor produced by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards contains six articles that deal with a wide range of issues in the productivity area. Topics covered are the contribution of the information and communications technology sector to...
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Innovation and Firms’ Performance in the Rwandese Manufacturing Industry. A Firm Level Empirical Analysis
Ndemezo, Etienne - 2018
Rwandese manufacturing firms; (ii) to assess effects of innovation decision on innovation performance of Rwandese manufacturing … firms; and (iii) to evaluate impacts of innovation performance on financial performance of Rwandese manufacturing firms. To … performance. Consequently, in order to boost manufacturing firms' financial performance a public assistance in Research and …
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Trade, technology, and absorptive capacity : firm-level evidence across geographical clusters in the Tanzanian textiles and apparel sector
Saha, Amrita; Castro, André; Carreras, Marco; Guariso, … - 2020
Trade-linked technological change has potential to increase incomes in low-income countries (LICs). The most labour-intensive segments of the textiles and apparel global value chain are in LICs. However, gaps between available technologies and best practices make it difficult to adopt more...
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The Status of Servitization and its Effects on Productivity in Korea
Hwang, Kyung In; Jung, Jieun - 2023
Despite its importance, government support for firms that adopt servitization in their businesses is severely lacking. This is because there is little known about the status of servitization; little is known about which firms are likely to implement servitization, how many firms have adopted...
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The Decline of Computers As a General Purpose Technology : Why Deep Learning and the End of Moore’s Law are Fragmenting Computing
Thompson, Neil - 2019
It is a triumph of technology and of economics that our computer chips are so universal. Countless applications are only possible because of the staggering variety of calculations that modern chips can compute. But, this was not always the case. Computers used to be specialized, doing only...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012897333
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Innovation, Reallocation and Growth
Acemoglu, Daron - 2017
We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth and reallocation featuring endogenous entry and exit. A new and central economic force is the selection between high- and low-type firms, which differ in terms of their innovative capacity. We estimate the parameters of the model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974477
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Innovation, Reallocation and Growth
Acemoglu, Daron - 2015
We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth and reallocation featuring endogenous entry and exit. A key feature is the selection between high- and low-type firms, which differ in terms of their innovative capacity. We estimate the parameters of the model using detailed US...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013035706
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Innovation, Reallocation, and Growth
Acemoglu, Daron - 2019
We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth and reallocation featuring endogenous entry and exit. A new and central economic force is the selection between highand low-type firms, which differ in terms of their innovative capacity. We estimate the parameters of the model using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012900520
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Innovation, Reallocation and Growth
Acemoglu, Daron - 2014
We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth and reallocation featuring endogenous entry and exit. A key feature is the selection between high- and low-type firms, which differ in terms of their innovative capacity. We estimate the parameters of the model using detailed US...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013062735