–2004 based on the 4th Community Innovation Survey for Portugal. We estimated several Knowledge Production Functions, assuming … that knowledge outputs result from the combination of certain knowledge inputs with the flow of ideas coming from the … existing stock of knowledge. We found that the more internationally engaged firms create more knowledge output than their …

, regardless of the origin - innovation or imitation -, and not on comparative advantage in the production of final goods. By …

In the standard models of North-South technological-knowledge diffusion, the larger the initial technological-knowledge … empirical findings can be reduced by considering that: (i) the South can only imitate Northern technological knowledge when it …

incorporating state-of-the-art technological knowledge affects accumulation of human capital and wage inequality in the North and … South. Under North-South technological diffusion, endogenous economic growth depends on Schumpeterian R&D - innovation in …

This paper develops an endogenous growth model with technological knowledge directed towards high- versus low …-country technological-knowledge diffusion and human-capital accumulation interacts with the intra-country direction of technological … knowledge arising from trade. In contrast with the market-size effect, stressed in the skill-biased technological change …