Stagnation despite ongoing innovation: Is R&D expenditure composition a missing link? An empirical analysis for the US (1948-2019)
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- Ciaffi, Giovanna & Deleidi, Matteo & Di Bucchianico, Stefano, 2024. "Stagnation despite ongoing innovation: Is R&D expenditure composition a missing link? An empirical analysis for the US (1948–2019)," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 206(C).
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Keywords
Secular Stagnation; public and private R&D; innovation policy; research productivity; productivity growth;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- O47 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - Empirical Studies of Economic Growth; Aggregate Productivity; Cross-Country Output Convergence
- O32 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Management of Technological Innovation and R&D
- O40 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - General
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CSE-2022-08-22 (Economics of Strategic Management)
- NEP-EFF-2022-08-22 (Efficiency and Productivity)
- NEP-INO-2022-08-22 (Innovation)
- NEP-SBM-2022-08-22 (Small Business Management)
- NEP-TID-2022-08-22 (Technology and Industrial Dynamics)
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