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The it Revolution and the Globalization of R&D
Branstetter, Lee - 2018
three important phenomena: (1) the globalization of R&D, (2) the growing importance of software and IT to firm innovation … markets. One of the distinguishing features of the R&D globalization phenomenon is its concentration within the software … IT- and software-biased shift in innovation drove US MNCs abroad, and particularly drove them abroad to “new hubs” with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012916620
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Knowledge Transfer Abroad : The Role of U.S. Inventors within Global R&D Networks
Branstetter, Lee - 2018
The location of US multinational foreign R&D has shifted significantly to include emerging markets in addition to traditional Western R&D hubs, resulting in two challenges for multinationals: (1) how to transfer knowledge across geographic distances, and (2) how to facilitate learning when local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012922984
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International Technology Diffusion
Keller, Wolfgang - 2021
I discuss the concept and empirical importance of international technology diffusion from the point of view of recent work on endogenous technological change. In this literature, technology is viewed as technological knowledge. I first review the major concepts, and how international technology...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013224853
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Five Facts You Need to Know About Technology Diffusion
Comin, Diego; Hobijn, Bart; Rovito, Emilie - 2021
This paper presents a new data set on the diffusion of about 115 technologies in over 150 countries over the last 200 years. We use this comprehensive data set to uncover general patterns of technology diffusion. Our main 5 findings are as follows: (i) Once the intensive margin is measured,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013248719
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Trade Induced Technical Change? The Impact of Chinese Imports on Innovation, it and Productivity
Bloom, Nicholas - 2015
-specific quotas following China's entry into the World Trade Organization. Chinese import competition had two effects: first, it led … effect on innovation. We develop a simple "trapped factor" model of innovation that is consistent with these empirical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013038317
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The Impact of Globalization on Pre-Industrial, Technologically Quiescent Economies
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2012
This paper uses a new pre-1940 Third World data base documenting real wages and relative factor prices to explore their … wages to land rents, on the other hand, declined up to World War I and so did the ratio of wages to GDP per capita. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013103885
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The Impact of Globalization on Pre-Industrial, Technologically Quiescent Economies
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2012
This paper uses a new pre-1940 Third World data base documenting real wages and relative factor prices to explore their … wages to land rents, on the other hand, declined up to World War I and so did the ratio of wages to GDP per capita. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013112616
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The Impact of Globalization on Pre-Industrial, Technologically Quiescent Economies
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2021
This paper uses a new pre-1940 Third World data base documenting real wages and relative factor prices to explore their … wages to land rents, on the other hand, declined up to World War I and so did the ratio of wages to GDP per capita. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013231451
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The Impact of Globalization on Pre-Industrial, Technologically Quiescent Economies
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2000
This paper uses a new pre-1940 Third World data base documenting real wages and relative factor prices to explore their … wages to land rents, on the other hand, declined up to World War I and so did the ratio of wages to GDP per capita. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014158843
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Pop Internationalism : Has a Half Century of World Music Trade Displaced Local Culture?
Ferreira, Fernando V. - 2010
Advances in communication technologies over the past half century have made the cultural goods of one country more readily available to consumers in another, raising concerns that cultural products from large economies - in particular the US - will displace the indigenous cultural products of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013143771