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 …

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 …

We propose an endogenous growth model with offshoring to investigate its effects on product innovation and growth in …

or in the knowledge sector, which designs new varieties. It is shown that if the elasticity of labor supply to the … knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a ‘Solovian zone’ where wages increase with …

, innovation and economic growth. We provide empirical evidence that the reforms carried out under the EU Single Market Programme … with a subsequent increase in innovation intensity and productivity growth for manufacturing sectors. In our analysis we … reforms on average profitability, and the effects of profitability on innovation and productivity growth. …