George Van Leeuwen

ICT, Innovation and Business Performance in Services : Evidence for Germany and the Netherlands (2004)

Leeuwen, George Van, Hempell, Thomas, Wiel, Henry Van Der

Using panel data for German and Dutch firms from the services sector, this paper analyses the importance of ICT capital deepening and innovation for productivity. We employ a model that takes into...

Technological Regimes and Innovation: Looking for Regularities in Dutch Manufacturing Orietta Marsili (2001)

Orietta Marsili, Bart Verspagen, Giulio Bottazzi, Giovanni Dosi, Luuk Klomp, George Van Leeuwen, ...

This paper explores the characteristics of `technological regimes' in Dutch manufacturing. Using evidence from the second Community Innovation Survey (CIS-II) a classification of technological...

Adoption of advanced manufacturing technology and firm performance in the Netherlands (1995)

Bartelsman, E.J., Leeuwen, George Van

This paper presents characteristics of firms which employ advanced manufacturing tech-nology (AMT), explores the pattern of adoption of such technology, and traces the effects ofadoption on the...

Do ICT spillovers matter? Evidence from Dutch firm-level data

George Van Leeuwen

This paper presents an empirical analysis of the contribution of Information Communication and Technology (ICT) to labour productivity growth in the 1990s, using an extensive panel of firm-level data...

Adoption of advanced manufacturing technology and firm performance in the Netherlands

Bartelsmans, Eric, Leeuwen, George Van, Nieuwenhuijsen, Henry

This paper presents characteristics of firms which employ advanced manufacturing tech-nology (AMT), explores the pattern of adoption of such technology, and traces the effects of adoption on the...

On the contribution of innovation to multi-factor productivity growth

George Van Leeuwen, Luuk Klomp

We embed the innovation production function in a model that analyzes the impact of innovation output on manufacturing multi-factor productivity (MFP) growth. We combine a market share model with a...

Linking Innovation to Productivity Growth Using Two Waves of the Community Innovation Survey

George Van Leeuwen

Using two waves of the Community Innovation Survey (CIS) for the Netherlands, this paper integrates recent lines of research to estimate the contribution of innovation to manufacturing multifactor...

Market structure, productivity and scale in European business services

Kox, Henk L.M., Leeuwen, George Van, Wiel, Henry Van Der

Using data from 11 EU countries, the paper investigates the impact of scale economies on labour productivity in European business services. Moreover, it analyses whether the incidence of scale...

Cross your border and look around

Harold Creusen, George Van Leeuwen

This document focuses on innovation, human capital, technology transfers and competition as potential sources of productivity growth for firms. It integrates the views of existing literature such as...