This paper analyses the geography of innovation in China and India. Using a tailor-made panel database for regions in … between the provinces and states within both countries are quite different. In China, the concentration of innovation is …. Innovative areas in China, rather than generate knowledge spillovers, seem to produce strong backwash effects. In India, by …

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 …

was caused by the increased financialization of oil futures markets, which in turn allowed speculation to become a major … than the financialization of oil futures markets. …

We model technological and financial innovation as reflecting the decisions of profit maximizing agents and explore the … also engage in the costly, risky, and potentially profitable process of innovation: Financiers can invent more effective …. Consequently, technological innovation and, thus, economic growth stop unless financiers continually innovate. Historical …