Knowledge intensive business services and long term growth

Benoit Desmarchelier, Faridah Djellal () and Faïz Gallouj

Abstract: The goal of this paper is to (re)assess the relationship between knowledge intensive busi- ness services (KIBS) and the economic growth. Taking into account various conflicting relationships between KIBS and growth, we build a multi agent-based system involving industrial firms, consumer-services firms, consumers, KIBS firms and a banking system. Our main result is that KIBS can be regarded as an engine for the economic growth and that they operate as a substitute for the material capital accumulation. Nevertheless, material capital accumulation still appears as a significant factor of economic growth.

Keywords: Economic growth; Business services; Structural change (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012-07-01
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Published in Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2012, pp.1-17

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