play a role in the contemporaneous evolution of innovation in a broad cross section of countries today. Our results …, while 'home grown' innovation is more sensitive to internal structural and institutional factors. …

issue, we build a model in which the value of an innovation depends both on the type of innovation implemented (product …

positive knowledge spillovers, but the effects of intra-industry trade are ambiguous. With regard to sectoral import …Our paper decomposes knowledge-diffusing trade flows and estimates their impacts separately. Overall, trade generates … penetration, we find that potential positive spillovers are dominated by negative competition effects. This, however, masks the …

technology flows. It uses information from the Community Innovation Survey (CIS) collected by the French Service des Statistiques …

innovation regimes. On the one hand, radical innovations rely strongly on firm-level spillovers, including property rights, and … firm level. The first part of our analysis is dedicated to the determinants of innovation and reveals two different … innovation height matters. We also find evidence that TFP growth is better represented by an upward shift of the production …

This research argues that the rapid expansion of international trade in the second phase of the industrial revolution … countries in the last two centuries. The theory suggests that international trade affected the evolution of economies … asymmetrically. The gains from trade were channeled towards population growth in non- industrial nations while in the industrial …