The development prospects of a poor country depend in part on its capacity for innovation. The productivity of its … innovators depends in turn on their access to technological knowledge. The emigration of highly skilled individuals weakens local … knowledge networks (brain drain), but may also help remaining innovators access valuable knowledge accumulated abroad (brain …

innovations-innovations that break new ground in terms of knowledge creation. After presenting a motivating model focusing on the … choice between incremental and radical innovation, and on how managers of different ages and human capital are sorted across … measures of creative innovations proxy for innovation quality (average number of citations per patent) and creativity (fraction …

"cutthroat capitalism" that generates greater inequality and more innovation and will become the technology leaders, while others …

innovations—innovations that break new ground in terms of knowledge creation. After presenting a motivating model focusing on the … choice between incremental and radical innovation, and on how managers of different ages and human capital are sorted across … consistent with this pattern. Our measures of creative innovations proxy for innovation quality (average number of citations per …