Human capital is observed to be an important contributor to growth but unevenly distributed geographically. While there … is consensus on the importance of human capital to economic development, debate takes shape around two central issues …. First, there is the question of how best to measure human capital. Second, there is debate over the factors that yield the …

and drivers of innovation, technology and knowledge. The role of absorptive capacity and knowledge flows between economic … that national innovative productivity depends upon the national innovation systems. Multinationals play an increasingly … multinationals contribute to innovation, technology and knowledge dispersion. The distribution of knowledge investments is uneven …

experimental and dynamic microeconomic model useful for studying the patent system as a trade system, where patented technology is … introduced together with inventor and innovator agents in order to multiply the value (use) of the technology. Three mechanism …

This paper examines how technology specialization, measured by citations-weighted patents, affects trade flows. The … paper analyzes (i) the relationship between technology specialization and export specialization across regions and (ii) how … the technology specialization of origin and destination affect the size and structure of link-specific export flows. We …

This paper analyzes the influences of human capital and technology transfers from R&D activities on regional export … of technology transfers from R&D activities to the geographical distribution of R&D activities and the observed patterns … empirical work show significant positive effects of human capital and R&D accessibility on the revealed comparative advantages …

The relationships between talent, technology and regional development have been widely examined in the advanced … on two key issues. The first involves the efficacy of educational (i.e. human capital) versus occupational (i.e. the … examine the relationships between talent, technology and regional economic performance in China, and to isolate the effects of …

investments, externalities and key actors in national innovation systems and productivity. This study explores whether foreign … knowledge technological knowledge spillover does not manifest itself in superior innovation output or productivity performance … that is subsequently exploited in affiliates abroad. Correspondingly, the innovation and productivity performance in …

This paper serves as another complementary link in a chain of a rather limited number of investigations in the R&D-innovation-productivity … relationship within service industries. Innovation has been found to be a major contributor to productivity growth in manufacturing … evidence that the reported weak rate of productivity growth in knowledge intensive services can be explained by a low …

labour productivity. Using five waves of the Community Innovation Survey in Sweden, we have traced the innovative behaviour … choose and afford to have a complex innovation strategy are better off in terms of their future productivity in compare with …. Moreover, not all types of complex innovation strategies affect the future productivity significantly; rather, there are only …