PRIVATE R&D INVESTMENT AND PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH IN A PANEL OF FOOD MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES
| dc.creator | Carew, Richard | |
| dc.date | 2017-04-01T20:04:48Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-09T04:22:50Z | |
| dc.description | The paper presents production function estimates of human capital and business research and development knowledge for a panel of Canadian food manufacturing industries over the period 1993-2004. Our results show that physical and human capitals are major determinants of food manufacturing productivity. Business research and development (R&D) was found not to be a major factor shaping food manufacturing productivity. This result is consistent with previous studies showing that not only is R&D an important factor but engineering practices, information technologies, and equipment suppliers are a key ingredients shaping the technological landscape of food manufacturing. In addition, we tested the robustness of our food manufacturing sample results to a larger sample of manufacturing industries (food, wood, paper, fertilizer) over a shorter time period. Our results show from employing different panel model estimators business R&D was a significant variable impacting manufacturing productivity. | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.22004/ag.econ.34169 | |
| dc.identifier | https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/34169/files/sp06ca01.pdf | |
| dc.identifier | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/34169 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/549035 | |
| dc.language | eng | |
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| dc.source | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/34169 | |
| dc.title | PRIVATE R&D INVESTMENT AND PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH IN A PANEL OF FOOD MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES | |
| dc.type | Text |