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Manufacturing the future : is the manufacturing sector a driver of R&D, exports and productivity growth?

Coad, Alexander; Vezzani, Antonio - 2017

Many industrialized countries in Europe and North America have experienced a steady decline in the manufacturing sector over the last few decades. Amid growing concerns that outsourcing and offshoring have destabilized European economies, policymakers have suggested that a large manufacturing...

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SME Performance, Innovation and Networking - Evidence on Complementarities for a Local Economic System

Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Mancinelli, Susanna - 2015

The paper addresses the relevancy of networking activities and R&D as main drivers of productivity performance and … performance. The complementarity with networking is a consequential step. Networking by itself cannot thus play a role in … networking are to be sustained and favoured. our evidence suggests that R&D may be a single main driver of performance. Since R …

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Technology diffusion and growth

Luttmer, Erzo G.J. - In: Journal of Economic Theory 147 (2012) 2, pp. 602-622

Suppose firms are subject to decreasing returns and permanent idiosyncratic productivity shocks. Suppose also firms can only stay in business by continuously paying a fixed cost. New firms can enter. Firms with a history of relatively good productivity shocks tend to survive and others are...

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Market power, productivity and the EU single market program: An ex-post assessment on Italian firm level data

Bottasso, Anna; Sembenelli, Alessandro - 1998

This paper provides empirical evidence on the impact the EU Single Market Program has exerted on market power and total factor productivity in a large sample of Italian firms. By splitting the full sample on the basis of the ex-ante likelihood of being affected by the removal of non-tariff...

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Linkages between technology choice and exporting: Evidence from Argentina

Schmidt, Gabriela; Trofimenko, Natalia - 2010

performance. The magnitude of the effect is large: a one percent increase in spending on technology increases exports by 30 …

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Linkages between technology choice and exporting : evidence from Argentina

Schmidt, Gabriela; Trofimenko, Natalia - 2010

performance. The magnitude of the effect is large: a one percent increase in spending on technology increases exports by 30 …

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Strengthening competition in Poland

Égert, Balázs; Goujard, Antoine - 2014

Poland’s productivity has grown strongly over the past decade, and efforts to reduce the regulatory burden have been significant. Despite impressive progress, product market regulation remains more burdensome than in most OECD countries, partly due to the importance of red tape and the level...

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Firms' Differential Innovative Success and Market Dynamics

Cantner, Uwe - 2014

shares and the relation to their respective relative technological performance and to their or innovative performance are … investigated with productivity levels as a proxy for technological performance and productivity changes as proxy for innovative … performance …

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Boosting SMEs' internationalisation in Poland

Goujard, Antoine; Guérin, Pierre - 2020

services sectors fostering robust growth and productivity performance. However, the benefits of this development have been …

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Beyond Hype and Despair : Developing Healthy Communities in the Era of Intelligent Tools

Zysman, John - 2019

There is much we do not know and cannot know about the socioeconomic impacts of intelligent machines. The impacts will be driven by business strategies that differ by sector and country. “Good jobs” strategies are possible. It is important to identify and strengthen the factors, including...

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