-doing and organizational forgetting in R&D on firms' incentives to innovate. I develop a dynamic step by step innovation model … with history dependency. Firms can accumulate knowledge by investing in R&D. As a benchmark I show that without knowledge … experience by performing R&D the resulting effect of knowledge induces technological leaders to rest on their laurels which …

proportion of knowledge workers in employment, depending on the response of the overall demand for knowledge to the implied … reduction in the cost of acquiring it. In my model, knowledge (in a broad sense) is an input into the production function of … knowledge input in the production of human capital. An improvement in IT is modelled as an increase in the number of people who …

outsourcing, profits and innovation using plant level data. We find a positive effect of international outsourcing of services on … activities towards innovation. We also find that international services outsourcing has a positive effect on profitability, as …

We investigate whether inward FDI, either at the firm or industry level, has any impact on product innovation by … that export, invest in human capital or R&D, or have prior innovation experience. We also find that SOEs with internal R …