R&D and Absorptive Capacity: Theory and Empirical Evidence*

By Rachel Griffith, S. Redding, John Van Reenen. 2003

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Foreign ownership and productivity: new evidence from the service sector and the R&D lab (2004, methodology): “An alternative empirical approach is adopted by Griffith, Redding and Simpson (2003) , who use an establishment’s distance from the technological frontier20 as a direct measure of”
Semi-endogenous versus Schumpeterian growth models: testing the knowledge production function using international data (2008, methodology): “A)/Amax and (Amax peterian models of Griffith et al. (2003, 2004).”
From R&D to Productivity Growth: Do the Institutional Settings and the Source of Funds of R&D Matter? (2004, unknown): “Griffith et al. (2003) provide the theoretical foundations underlying the hypothesis of absorptive capability.”
Knowledge flows and the absorptive capacity of regions (2015, background): “Cohen and Levinthal (1989) already suggested the double role of R&D, that is, not only as a generator of new knowledge, but also as a mean to enhance the firm’s ability to assimilate and exploit existing information.”
Modelling the innovation value chain (2008, background): “Literature on publicly funded R&D has suggested repeatedly, since Griliches (1995), that government support for R&D and innovation can have positive benefits for firms’ innovation activity both by boosting levels of investment and through its positive effect on organisational capabilities (e.”
Output Additionality of Public Support for Innovation: Evidence for Irish Manufacturing Plants (2010, background): “This reflects the findings of other survey-based examinations of innovation which typically stress internal R&D as an element of knowledge creation and absorptive capacity (Griffith et al., 2003) and the importance of supply-chain knowledge linkages (Hewitt-Dundas et al.”
International Energy R&D Spillovers and the Economics of Greenhouse Gas Atmospheric Stabilization (2008, background): “Also Griffith et al. (2003) find that R&D increases the absorption of knowledge spillovers and that neglecting this “second face” of knowledge investments necessarily leads to an underestimation of R&D's social rate of return.”
Firms’ knowledge search and local knowledge externalities in innovation performance (2017, methodology): “Empirical model Following the general line of argument in the innovation production function literature stemming from Griliches (1995), firms will invest in knowledge sourcing only if the expected returns are positive, with the scale of any investment varying positively with the expected rate of…”
Cooperation in the Innovation Process in Developing Countries: Empirical Evidence from Zhongguancun, Beijing (2006, methodology): “Following the arguments brought up by Griffith et al (2003), one important function of domestic companies in developing countries is not to generate new knowledge but to absorb technology developed elsewhere.”
CO2 Emissions, Research and Technology Transfer in China (2009, unknown): “Second, there is a growing literature suggesting that domestic research activity plays a crucial role in facilitating the transfer of foreign technology (see Howitt, 2000; Griffith et al. 2003, 2004; Cameron et al., 2005; Hu et al., 2005).”
Frontier Technology and Absorptive Capacity: Evidence from OECD Manufacturing Industries (2006, unknown): “This will enable us to concentrate on the determinants of absorptive capacity and hence productivity and to compare our results with those of Miller and Upadhyay (2000), Senhadji (2000) and Griffith et al. (2004). In section III, we extend our analysis by relaxing this assumption.”