The productivity impact of R&D investment: are high-tech sectors still ahead?

Raquel Ortega-Argilés, Mariacristina Piva, Marco Vivarelli

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Abstract

Our aim is to investigate the relationship between a firm's R&D expenditures and its productivity, looking at sectoral peculiarities. We use a unique longitudinal database consisting of 1809 US and European manufacturing and service firms over the period 1990–2008. Our main findings can be summarised as follows. Consistently with previous literature, the knowledge stock has a significant positive impact on a firm's productivity. More interestingly, the coefficient turns out to be significantly larger in the R&D-user services and high-tech manufacturing sectors than in the non-high-tech manufacturing sectors. Contrary to the ‘latecomer advantage’ approach, these outcomes suggest that firms in high-tech sectors are still ahead in terms of impact on productivity of R&D investments.
Lingua originaleEnglish
pagine (da-a)204-222
Numero di pagine19
RivistaEconomics of Innovation and New Technology
Volume24, n.3
Stato di pubblicazionePubblicato - 2015

Keywords

  • Productivity
  • R&D
  • knowledge stock
  • panel data

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