investigates the link between outsourcing and innovation empirically using firm-level data for over 20 emerging market economies …

effect of the composition of economic activity on innovation. We test whether the specialization of economic activity within … together complementary activities, better promotes innovation. The evidence provides considerable support for the diversity …

Only a few years ago the conventional wisdom predicted that globalization would render the demise of the region as a … essential to innovative activity. Such knowledge spillovers tend to be spatially restricted. Thus, an irony of globalization is …

, it is possible to identify a variety of channels through which trade affects the evolution of world income and its …

imitative R&D to copy state-of-the-art quality Northern products. Both innovation and imitation rates are endogenously … globalization and stronger protection of intellectual property are analysed. It is shown that globalization leads to more copying of … intellectual property protection has the opposite steady-state effects and thus serves to moderate the effects of globalization. …

aspects of globalization are studied: increases in the size of the South (i.e., countries like China joining the world trading …This paper develops a dynamic general equilibrium model of North-South trade and economic growth. Both innovation and …

investments, but little selection. Closer to the world technology frontier, there is a switch to an innovation-based strategy with …We analyse an economy where managers engage both in the adoption of technologies from the world frontier and in … innovation activities. The selection of high-skill managers is more important for innovation activities. As the economy …