structure of endogenous growth models with horizontal as well as vertical innovation and emphasizing important implications for …

discovery and in the diffusion of a technological principle and their profit flow depends on how many firms adopt the innovation …

We analyse how spatial disparities in innovation activities, coupled with migration costs, affect economic geography …

In recent years firms have started to offshore their innovation activities to emerging economies. This paper … investigates the implications of innovation offshoring for productivity growth in a two-country framework that features a tension … between access to technical knowledge and low-cost high-skilled labor in the innovation location decision. Industry and …

Environmental regulations have consistently been found to spur innovation in "clean" technologies, with one significant … effect on innovation. Several explanations have been offered, including secondary market failures and a lack of polluter …, contrary to past experience, encouraged innovation rather than adoption. I discuss how these contrasting findings can be …