We examine the impact of Chinese import competition on patenting, IT, R&D and TFP using a panel of up to half a million …-specific quotas following China’s entry into the World Trade Organization. Chinese import competition had two effects: first, it led … account for around 15% of European technology upgrading between 2000-2007. Rising Chinese import competition also led to falls …

framework with search and matching frictions, and, as an innovation, in the presence of sectoral heterogeneity. Family and non …

suggests that early disclosure of patent applications is perceived as a threat to family firms' innovation activity and …