In some countries around the world, the advantages of globalisation have been increasingly called into question … recently. In particular, takeovers by foreign firms raise suspicions of technology theft and job cuts at the newly acquired … internationalisation is not to the detriment of the domestic labour force. Thus, all in all, this supports a positive view of globalisation …

. Where licensing fails, follow-on innovation is blocked unless firms gain FTO through patent invalidation. Using large …We study the blocking effect of patents on follow-on innovation by others. We posit that follow-on innovation requires … freedom to operate (FTO), which firms typically obtain through a license from the patentee holding the original innovation …

ordered to license all its copier-technology patents in the US and abroad. I show that this promoted innovation by other firms … available for licensing. This positive effect is driven by increased innovation by Japanese competitors. They started developing …How does antitrust enforcement against patent-based monopolies affect innovation? I address this question by …

. In contrast, we do not find evidence that improved production processes and technology upgrading cause the positive …

suggest that developing countries grow faster when they are globally competitive in low-technology manufacturing and natural …

This paper examines the extent to which aggregate-level de-routinization can be attributed to firm-level technology … technologies. Our results suggest that an acceleration of technology adoption would be associated with faster de-routinization and …

. Unlike more mature, computer-based technologies, frontier technologies of the recent technology wave substantially lower …