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Absorptive capacity, R&D spillovers, and public policy

Leahy, Dermot ; Neary, J. Peter (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2004-05)

Empirical evidence strongly suggests that R&D increases a firm’s "absorptive capacity" (its ability to absorb spillovers from other firms) as well as contributing directly to profitability. We explore the theoretical ...
Absorptive capacity, R&D spillovers, and public policy

Leahy, Dermot ; Neary, J. Peter (University College Dublin. Institute for the Study of Social Change (Geary Institute), 2003-10-20)

Empirical evidence strongly suggests that R&D increases a firm’s "absorptive capacity" (its ability to absorb spillovers from other firms) as well as contributing directly to profitability. We explore the theoretical ...
The direction of technical change in capital-resource economies

Di Maria, Corrado ; Valente, Simone (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, 2006-03)

We analyze a multi-sector growth model with directed technical change where man-made capital and exhaustible resources are essential for production. The relative profitability of factor-specific innovations endogenously ...
R&D in developing countries : what should governments do?

Neary, J. Peter (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1999-11-10)

I consider the implications of recent research for R&D policy in developing countries. Typical new growth models, which assume free entry and no strategic behaviour by R&D producers, are less appropriate for policy guidance ...