spatial agglomeration and technology, in determining some features of business groups’ strategy and organization. Specifically … industrial districts (as a proxy for spatial agglomeration) and to the role of spatial agglomeration and technology in vertical …

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. …

's decision between serving a market via greenfield foreign direct investment to avoid the exposure of its technology or entering …, whereas policies to limit foreign ownership in a JV gain importance in technology intensive industries as complementary …

The paper develops a model in which a country with better technology for abatement of Green House Gas (GHG) emission … the mitigation effort in the other country (the South) with unconditional transfer of abatement technology. It finds out … in the autarkic (‘no trade’) equilibrium the technology transfer offer from the North is always accepted by the South …

international diffusion of climate-friendly technologies on a global scale. Regression results show that technology …

technology transfer deviate from the first-best, and a suitable flow of side payments to encourage the local firm to stay longer. …

This paper analyzes the potential welfare gains of introducing a technology transfer from Annex I to non-Annex I in … Southern economy. In a cooperative equilibrium, a technology transfer from the North to the South is clearly desirable from the …, if the regions do not cooperate, then the incentives to introduce the technology transfer appear to be relatively weak …

developing countries (South) through its impact on innovation, market structure and technology transfer. In a North-South trade … can protect their technology by exporting or risk spillovers by undertaking FDI to avoid tariffs. A stringent IPR regime … is always optimal for the South as it triggers technology transfer by inducing FDI in less R&D-intensive industries and …

This paper examines the role that trade plays in economic development through the channel of technology transfer …, approximated by total factor productivity. Three strains of factors influence the process of technology transfer; direct effort … between donor- and receiving countries. In this context, trade in (capital) goods allows technology import and improved input …