artifacts that evolve in the form of a nested hierarchy of technology cycles. Such a nested complex system perspective provides …

) or to the improvement of the quality of machines without altering their underlying technology (innovations). Learning … in expanding the technology frontier; (b) when inventions occur they tend to arrive in clusters; and (c) a life-cycle of … technologies during the early stages of which a discovery is followed by a period of rapid economic growth and innovation, and the …

moves economic geography from a preoccupation with theory towards more rigorous empirical research with greater relevance …

-grown" technology abroad. FDI frequently also entails the generation of knowledge abroad in own R&D facilities the nature of which … increasingly shifts from adaptation to innovation development and knowledge-seeking. In addition, international technological … inländischer Technologie im Ausland. Sie führen häufig auch zur Erzeugung neuen Wissens in ausländischen FuE-Einrichtungen, die …