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three important phenomena: (1) the globalization of R&D, (2) the growing importance of software and IT to firm innovation … markets. One of the distinguishing features of the R&D globalization phenomenon is its concentration within the software … IT- and software-biased shift in innovation drove US MNCs abroad, and particularly drove them abroad to "new hubs" with …
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We construct a model of international trade and multinational production (MP) to examine the impact of globalization on …
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If further decarbonization of electricity systems is to continue, a next generation of innovation in transformative … determinants of innovation in this sector to glean insights on how government may support the development and deployment of these … technologies. We argue that policies that were successful at supporting the first wave of renewables innovation may not be …
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frontier? This paper models agents growing as a result of investments in innovation and imitation. Imitation facilitates …
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between globalization and innovation does not differ across the manufacturing and service sectors …Globalization brings opportunities and pressures for domestic firms in emerging markets to innovate and improve their …, vertical linkages with foreign firms, and international trade on several types of innovation by domestic firms. Using …
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It follows from Hicks' induced innovation hypothesis that rising energy prices in the last two decades should have … induced energy-saving innovation. We formulate the hypothesis concretely using a product-characteristics model of energy … innovation. Through estimation of characteristics transformation surfaces, we find that technological change reduced the total …
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The catchword 'green skills' has been common parlance in policy circles for a while, yet there is little systematic empirical research to guide public intervention for meeting the demand for skills that will be needed to operate and develop green technology. The present paper proposes a...
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a discussion of sources of environmental innovation. Given that most innovation is concentrated in a few rich countries …
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We estimate the demand for a videocalling technology in the presence of both network effects and heterogeneity. Using a unique dataset from a large multinational firm, we pose and estimate a fully dynamic model of technology adoption. We propose a novel identification strategy based on...
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Internationalized production, that is, production in a country controlled by firms based in another country, grew from about 4.5% of world output in 1970 to over 7% in 1995. The importance of internationalized output fell substantially in developing countries until around 1990 but has been been...
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