Functioning markets for technology are an important determinant for the type, scope and distribution of innovation … activities in an economy. However, markets for technology are often underdeveloped or inefficient. Existing theory attributes … structural forces that shape the demand side of markets for technology. In this study, we reason that demand depends on the …

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

marginalized farmers into the technology revolution. From the standpoint of public policy-making, the internal diversity of farming … needs to be a clear policy for increasing technology absorption capacity, which entails making progress in rural extension …

recently. In particular, takeovers by foreign firms raise suspicions of technology theft and job cuts at the newly acquired …

patent boxes and R&D subsidies to promote innovation. We show that when countries set their tax policies non …-cooperatively, innovation is fostered, at the margin, only by the R&D subsidy, whereas the patent box tax rate is targeted at attracting …Many countries have introduced patent box regimes in recent years, offering a reduced tax rate to businesses for their …