basically depends on material and relational goods, we show that the best-case scenarios hold when technology and social capital … technology and social interaction balance one another in fostering the growth of both the social and the private sector of the … economy. Along such tracks, technology may play a crucial role in supporting a “socially sustainable” economic growth. …

power of exclusion which limits access by others to the newly produced knowledge. However, the production of new knowledge …

This research sheds light on the role of multinational production on the type of innovation performed by firms. We … spread across different product lines. We focus on two features of multinational production: (i) core knowledge is … geographically more difficult to transfer abroad to foreign production sites, (ii) learning spillovers can occur from international …

solution in which only technologies are developed that are appropriate for production of non-energy intensive goods. …

the fundamental mechanism of international technology diffusion for energy technological growth. We first develop an … is described as an expansion of energy technology variety. We show that in both models there is a cross …-country convergence in the growth rate of energy technology in a long-run balanced growth path, but the absolute levels of energy …

to developing a simple, intuitive analytical framework to unveil the mechanism of international technology diffusion for … mechanism of energy technology diffusion. This exogenous model is then extended to a Romer-type endogenous one where the R …&D-induced expansion of energy technology varieties is used to represent the deep structure of technology diffusion. We show that the …