recent decades as a result of increased globalization of knowledge, technologies and economies. In particular I look at the … development in a number area where similar trends are observed. The areas studied include globalization, in-sourcing and …

The globalization of R&D activities has continued its growth path as companies are increasingly trying to capture …-intensive businesses has led researchers and analysts to pursue a deeper understanding of the globalization of corporate R&D and the … related driving factors and impacts. This introduction to the Special Section: Globalization and Corporate R&D forthcoming in …

heterogeneity in the degree of globalization over time and across countries and regions of the World, as well as within countries …The process of globalization is an international economic order which has led to the progressive integration of the … world economy through the pulling the barrier of trade and greater mobility of factors of production. In addition the …

globalization (1985-2005), there has been some convergence of business cycle fluctuations among the group of industrial economies …

significant impediment to growth but religious and linguistic heterogeneity have not. Further, while economic globalization has … more from global integration. This suggests the importance of globalization in redressing the detrimental impact of ethnic …

technology, globalization tends to lead to convergence. Moreover, under non-convex technology trade and migration tend to be … or complements. Complementarity/substitutability hinges on whether countries share the same technology, and the pivotal … question is whether or not technology is convex. Generally, under substitutability between trade and migration and with convex …

roles of world prices of skills and country proximity. Our empirical results are consistent with the view that these factors …

high-skill) migration is becoming the dominant pattern of international migration and a major aspect of globalization. We …

inventors are more prevalent in the first bulk of patents of a country in a given technology, as compared to patents filed at … later stages. We interpret these results as tangible evidence of migrants facilitating the technology-specific diffusion of …

evidence of migrants facilitating the technology-specific diffusion of knowledge across nations. …