R&D and Productivity: The Econometric Evidence
Zvi Griliches
Published in January 1998 by University of Chicago Press
© 1998 by the National Bureau of Economic Research
382 pages
ISBN: 0-226-30886-3
Table of Contents
  Front matter, acknowledgments, table of contents. (p. -13 - 0)  
  1. Introduction to "R&D and Productivity: The Econometric Evidence". (p. 1 - 14)  
  2. Issues in Assessing the Contribution of Research and Development to Productivity Growth. (p. 17 - 45)
  3. Returns to Research and Development Expenditures in the Private Sector. (p. 49 - 81)
  4. Productivity, R&D, and Basic Research at the Firm Level in the 1970s . (p. 82 - 99)
  5. Productivity and R&D at the Firm Level. (p. 100 - 133)
  6. Productivity Growth and R&D at the Business Level: Results from the PIMS Data Base. (p. 134 - 156)
  7. Comparing Productivity Growth: An Exploration of French and U.S. Industrial and Firm Data. (p. 157 - 186)
  8. R&D and Productivity Growth: Comparing Japanese and U.S. Manufacturing Firms. (p. 187 - 210)
  9. R&D and Productivity Growth at the Industry Level: Is There Still a Relationship?. (p. 213 - 240)
  10. Interindustry Technology Flows and Productivity Growth: A Reexamination . (p. 241 - 250)
  11. The Search for R&D Spillovers. (p. 251 - 268)
  12. R&D and Productivity: The Unfinished Business. (p. 269 - 283)
  13. Patent Statistics as Economic Indicators: A Survey. (p. 287 - 343)
  14. Productivity, R&D, and the Data Constraint. (p. 347 - 374)
  Indexes. (p. 375 - 384)