have experienced rapid growth and catch up, others have fallen behind. At a global level there is an increasing inequality … proximate, intermediate and ultimate causality. Proximate factors refer to the directly quantifiable economic sources of growth … sources of growth, the paper places special emphasis on developing countries' ability to tap into global knowledge flows …

The science-technology-innovation system is one that is continuously and rapidly evolving. The dramatic growth over the … last twenty years in the use of science, technology and innovation (STI) indicators appears first and foremost the result … might be expected in societies which increasingly use organised science and technology to achieve a wide variety of social …

infinite population it converges to the Yule-Simon distribution. The power law is steeper when innovation is high. Diffusion …

investigate the motives of the contributing firms as well as the potential for such commons to encourage innovation and diffusion … development and diffusion of green technologies. More generally, the paper sheds light on the performance of hybrid forms of …

particular product technology. In the explorative stage many different designs are developed, in the development stage products … on percolation dynamics. The model combines the concept of increasing returns to adoption with information diffusion … product lifecycle as an outcome of a single elementary process. The model also replicates the S-shaped diffusion curve and the …

In this paper we show the benefits of regional connectivity and specialization to growth. Starting with one region we … speed up growth. The results also show a strong positive effect of reductions in the cost of making new connections. This … has a significant impact on both the steady state growth rate and on transitional growth, while significantly reducing the …

Growth theory has mainly focused on process innovation, either through an increase in quality of the product or a … reduction on the cost. The main contributions in growth theory that includes product innovation has been done in the Dixit and … the capacity to satisfy consumers’ needs. Growth in this model is defined as the growth of the final value added. …

perspectives CDM has been alleged as a new channel of transfer and diffusion of climate friendly technologies (CFT) in developing … countries. However we are evidencing that the majority of the CDM projects deploy local sources of technology, which challenges … the North- South technology transfer paradigm established under the sustainable development agenda of the KP. This paper …