The project “Finance, innovation and Strategy: Economic Analysis of Firm Productivity and its Determinants” (PRODECON-CM – HM S2015/HUM-3491) started in January 2016 and concluded in June 2019. As a collaboration between research groups of academic and research institutions based in Madrid in the area of social sciences, during these three years and a half, researchers in economics from the Center of Monetary and Financial Studies (cemfi), CSIC Institute of Public Goods and Policies (CSIC-IPP) and the University Complutense of Madrid (UCM), have carried out research activities to improve our understanding of the determinants of innovation and productivity in four subprojects focusing on the following themes:
innovation and patents
information technologies
product design
innovation funding
Results from the project in terms of publications, PhD theses and Master theses can be found here.
Information of the activities carried out with the support of the project is available here.
Project participants are listed here.
The project has been coordinated by Gerard Llobet (cemfi), who has also been responsible of the cemfi node. Catalina Martínez has been responsible of the CSIC-IPP node and Iñigo Herguera of the UCM node.
Funding from the Regional Government of Madrid and the European Social Fund is gratefully acknowledged.