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Title: | On R&D, medium and high-tech industries and productivity: an application to the Portuguese case |
Author: | Varum, C. A. Cibrão, B. |
Keywords: | Manufacturing Productivity Structural Change R&D High-tech industries |
Issue Date: | 2008 |
Abstract: | This paper investigates the potential impact of increased R&D efforts and structural change in Portugal on labour productivity. The paper addresses Portugal’s ambition, expressed in the 2005 Technological Plan. Based on existing literature on the relation between R&D expenditures, structural change and productivity, we evaluate the contribution of R&D and high-tech industries on productivity over the last 30 years. Our results confirm the importance of governement’s R&D and of business R&D in the medium to high-tech sectors, as they stimulate productivity growth. However, we cannot hypothesize that productivity growth was primarily rooted on the development of medium-high technology industries. |
Peer review: | yes |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10773/6894 |
Publisher Version: | www.cefage.uevora.pt/en/eventos/conferencias_internacionais/10th_infer_annual_conference |
Appears in Collections: | DEGEIT - Comunicações |
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