product and process innovation (simultaneously adopting new machines and organizational practices) and adopt foreign … technologies, leading to higher productivity. We propose a model of endogenous selection and innovation in heterogeneous firms that … jointly explains the observed selection process and the innovation decisions. Further, we show in the data that innovation on …

that the total current period (static) welfare gains of introducing a process or a product innovation are, on average …

process innovation. There are strong reasons why an efficient economy ought to concentrate both job creation and destruction …

investigate the motives of the contributing firms as well as the potential for such commons to encourage innovation and diffusion … knowledge management that combine open innovation and patenting …

innovation and international technology transfer in general. The literature suggests that patent protection in a host country … encourages technology transfer to that country but that its impact on innovation and development is much more ambiguous. We then … externalities, implies that patent protection may not be the optimal instrument for encouraging innovation in this area, especially …

literature on environmental innovation and diffusion, with a focus on studies relevant to the development of clean energy …

frontier? This paper models agents growing as a result of investments in innovation and imitation. Imitation facilitates …