Arno J Van der Vlist, Wageningen University
Agricultural Economics Research Institute
, Wageningen, The Netherlands, Michiel Van Galen, Agricultural Economics Research Institute, The Hague, The Netherlands
Pushing Back Frontiers with Innovations? (assigned to theme
In this paper we analyze variation in technical and scale efficiency in relation to firm innovativeness. Efficiency in production is decomposed into pure technical efficiency and scale efficiency. Based on existing findings in the literature we hypothesize that more innovative firms are closer to the frontier. Questions that we seek to answer are the following: How efficient are Dutch horticultural firms relative to each other in terms of both overall and partial technical efficiency measures? Are innovative firms located on the frontier and do they operate under increasing, constant or decreasing returns to scale? In order to answer these questions we use DEA (data envelopment analysis) techniques on a 1999 cross-section of 159 Dutch producers of glasshouse flowers, plants and vegetables.
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