Industrialization has long been seen as the answer to underdevelopment and poverty. First this led countries to follow protectionist import substitution policies but as these failed developing countries have opened up to trade and FDI and tried to follow strategies of export driven...

Industrialization has long been seen as the answer to underdevelopment and poverty. First this led countries to follow protectionist import substitution policies but as these failed developing countries have opened up to trade and FDI and tried to follow strategies of export driven...

This study identifies and measures the returns to regional, national and international knowledge sourcing for innovation in firms with different productivity levels. We develop and estimate a model on two distinct samples using data from the 17,859 most innovative firms during 2002-2014. We...