international production networks, on which growth in manufacturing has become increasingly dependent in the contemporary world …

developing world, it is believed that there is need for strict quality specification and enforcement within the country in the …

This paper addresses the relationships between innovation, research and development (R&D) and productivity in domestic … ICT firms in Costa Rica. Factors considered were the types of innovation outputs produced by domestic ICT firms, the … relative importance of innovation inputs, the impacts of innovation on firm productivity, the protection of innovations, and …

This research sheds light on the role of product scope on the innovation activity of multinational multi-product firms …. We use patent citation data to break down innovation into two types by measuring the degree to which innovation performed … focus on two features in multinational production: (i) fundamental innovation is geographically more difficult to transfer …

Although knowledge spillovers are at the core of the innovation policy’s justification, they have never been properly …

This paper analyzes a sequential game where firms decide about outsourcing the production of a non-specific input good … Tirole (1984) to characterize the different equilibria. We find that outsourcing generally softens competition in the final … product market. If firms anticipate the impact of their outsourcing decisions on input prices, there may be equilibria where …

The aim of this paper is to provide firm-level evidence on the short-run link between outsourcing and labor … find a positive effect on productivity from outsourcing only if firms provide training for the workforce. This indirect … impact on productivity is independent of the type of activity outsourced and is bigger in the case of service outsourcing …