This Paper studies the effect of knowledge diffusion on the incentives for developed countries’ (DC) firms to undertake … costly transfer of production knowledge of an input to their developing countries’ (LDC) suppliers whose costs of production … vary inversely with their technological effort. We distinguish between upstream knowledge diffusion, which occurs when the …

must then become larger to break even, which facilitates amortizing the fixed costs of innovation. We demonstrate our …

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 …

Many cultural products have the same non-rival nature as scientific knowledge. They therefore face identical … creativity. Markets for intellectual assets protected by IP rights can produce too much or too little innovation. …

technical and a pecuniary externality resulting from the innovation process may generate multiple equilibria. Redistribution may …

favourable for innovation incentives. This is consistent with empirical evidence, suggesting that countries with a more equal …

This paper examines the sources of firm product and process innovation in Norway. It uses a purpose-built survey of ….’s (2007) contention that firm innovation is both the result of ‘science, technology and innovation’ (STI) and ‘doing, using … innovation and that both STI and DUI-modes of interaction matter. However, it also shows that DUI modes of interaction outside …

Using a game theoretical model on firms' simultaneous investments in product and process innovation, we deduct and … and in independently competing firms. We use Community Innovation Survey data on Italian manufacturing firms. Theoretical …