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Unleashing business innovation in Canada

Ivanchuk Bibbee, Alexandra I. - 2012

This paper discusses how to improve Canada’s business innovation in order to boost labour productivity and output growth. Many general framework conditions are highly favourable to business risk-taking and innovation, including macro stability, openness, strong human capital, low corporate tax...

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From bricks to brains : increasing the contribution of knowledge-based capital to growth in Ireland

Haugh, David - 2013

With sound framework conditions, fine universities, good infrastructure and policies friendly towards foreign direct investment, Ireland scores high in international innovation scoreboards. Overall, policies to boost innovation and entrepreneurship are on the right track, but investment in...

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Boosting access to credit and ensuring financial inclusion for all in Costa Rica

Sunel, Enes - 2020

Having access to credit is essential for households to address the volatility of their personal finances over time and for firms to fund their investments. Accessing financial services at affordable cost on the other hand, is crucial to ensure financial security of all economic units. Despite...

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The EU vs US corporate R&D intensity gap : investigating key sectors and firms

Moncada Paternò Castello, Pietro; Grassano, Nicola - 2020

the EU and the US by inspecting which sectors and firms are more accountable for the aggregate R&D intensity performance …

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Employment effect of innovation

Kancs, D'Artis; Siliverstovs, Boriss - 2019

We provide a novel evidence about the innovation-employment nexus by decomposing it by R&D intensity in a continuous setup and relaxing the linearity assumption. Using a large international firm-level panel data set for OECD countries and employing a flexible semi-parametric method - the...

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Design, innovation and performance in European firms

Montresor, Sandro; Vezzani, Antonio - 2017

, innovation and economic performance at the firm level. We posit that design investments may provide firms with a higher capacity … of introducing product/process innovations, but that the ensuing economic performance is rather associated to the role of … associated with a non-systematic resort to design, a higher innovation-based performance is coupled with an increasingly more …

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The economic implications of Smart Specialisation governance : a general equilibrium analysis for Italy 2014-2020

Gianelle, Carlo; Guzzo, Fabrizio; Barbero, Javier; … - 2022

This paper provides insights on the potential macroeconomic impact of the European innovation policy for Smart Specialisation governance. We use original empirical data on the governance of the policy, funded through a dedicated financial envelope of the 2014-2020 EU cohesion policy, in a...

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