 A comparative analysis of research and development spending and total factor productivity growth in Hong Kong, Shenzhen, SingaporeNaubahar Sharif, Kevin Chandra, Athar Mansoor and Kirti Bhasin Sinha Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2021, vol. 57, issue C, 108-120 Abstract: In this paper, we focus on three locations in the Asia-Pacific region—Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and Singapore—to analyse the impact of variations in research and development (R&D) spending on total factor productivity (TFP) growth. In each of the three cases, we compare and contrast the role of public and private R&D in boosting TFP growth as well as the pattern of causality involving public and private R&D and the capacity of both types of R&D to generate economic spillovers. Our results show that the impact of both public and private R&D varies across the three cases, with significant but limited outcomes for TFP growth in the case of Hong Kong, no significant growth in Shenzhen, but strong and positively significant growth in Singapore. Keywords: Economic Growth; Total Factor Productivity; Public R&D; Private R&D; Hong Kong; Shenzhen; Singapore (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:streco:v:57:y:2021:i:c:p:108-120 DOI: 10.1016/j.strueco.2021.02.004 Access Statistics for this article Structural Change and Economic Dynamics is currently edited by F. Duchin, H. Hagemann, M. Landesmann, R. Scazzieri, A. Steenge and B. Verspagen More articles in Structural Change and Economic Dynamics from Elsevier |
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