discuss what standards are, how the process of standardization works, and how standards are related to induced innovation and …This paper aims to help policy makers identify how standards can contribute to the effective and cost …-saving technologies. This broad perspective enables us to identify interesting economic dimensions of standards, such as their …

process innovation on productivity in the Chilean manufacturing industry during the past decade. In general, the evidence … suggests there is not a contemporaneous effect of product innovation on productivity, but there is a positive effect of process … innovation. This notsignificant effect of product innovation contrasts with evidence of studies for other countries. However, the …

This paper studies countries' incentives to develop advanced pollution abatement technology when technology may … implementation of new technologies. We show that at the Nash equilibrium of a simultaneous-move game with R&D investment and emission … abatement, whether the free rider effect prevails and under-investment and excess emissions occur depends on the degree of …

accumulate. Consistent with the basic intuitions of Marx's theory of technical change, we show that there is no obvious relation …