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| Title: | | Technology flows between sectors and its impact on large-scale firms  |
| Authors: | | Antony, Jürgen Grebel, Thomas |
| Issue Date: | | 2008 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Jena economic research papers 2008,016 |
| Abstract: | | In this paper we highlight the importance of technology flows between sec- tors and their impact on the labor productivity of large-scale corporations. Based on theoretical considerations, we explore technological spillovers between the sectors of an economy. Large-scale corporations usually focus on certain sec- tors but make use of a wide range of technological knowledge from other sectors. Thereby, technological knowledge built up in sectors by continuous R&D ac- tivities does not spill over without bounds but is directed by firms' absorptive capacities. We use firms' patent portfolio to empirically calculate the sector af- filiation and therewith the firms' absorptive capacities in order to estimate the impact of technology diffusion on labor productivity. Fortune 500 firms serve as data base. |
| Subjects: | | Technology Flows Spillovers Firm Productivity |
| JEL: | | O33 O14 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Jena Economic Research Papers, MPI für Ökonomik
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