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Do regional systems of innovation matter?

Fritsch, Michael - 2003

The paper deals with the significant impact of location on innovation activity that has been found in many empirical studies. Main elements of such an explanation are the specific problems of a division of innovative labor. Based on an outline of these issues the concept of a regional innovation...

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Economic proximity and technology flows: South Africa's influence and the role of technological interaction in Botswana's diversification effort

Yaremye, Alexis Habi - 2008

In less than a decade after the end of the apartheid, South Africa has intensified its economic ties with its African neighbours to become one of the top-ten investors and trading partners of many African countries, displacing companies from the former colonial powers in Europe. Among such South...

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Offshoring, employment and wages

Bramucci, Alessandro - 2016

"offshoring", and provides a preliminary investigation of the impact of intermediate imported inputs on employment and wages in … offshoring on domestic labor demand and wages. The second section of the paper presents offshoring trends and discusses the … results of the econometric analysis. Results suggest that offshoring has a general negative impact on employment and wages …

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Unbundling technology adoption and tfp at the firm level: Do intangibles matter?

Battisti, Michele; Belloc, Filippo; Del Gatto, Massimo - 2012

We use a panel of European firms to investigate the relationship between intangible assets and productivity. We disentangle between tfp and technology adoption, while available studies so far have considered only a notion of productivity conflating the two effects. To this aim, we estimate...

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New Economic Geography reloaded: Localized knowledge spillovers and the geography of innovation

Christ, Julian P. - 2009

Despite the increasing and newly inspired interests in geographical economics and industry location theory, the majority of existing New Economic Geography models ignores the interdependence between spatial concentration, knowledge diffusion, invention and growth. For this reason, the paper...

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A Schumpeterian Model of Protection and Relative Wages

Dinopoulos, Elias; Segerstrom, Paul - 1996

This paper presents a dynamic general equilibrium model of trade between two advanced countries in which both innovation and skilled acquisition rates are endogenously determined. The model offers a North-North (as opposed to a North-South) trade explanation for increasing relative wage...

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Trade liberalisation, process and product innovation, and relative skill demand

Braun, Sebastian - 2007

The interaction between trade liberalisation, product and process innovation, and relative skill demand is analysed in a model of international oligopoly. Lower trading barriers increase the degree of foreign competition. The competing enterprises respond by investing more aggres- sively in...

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Innovation and trade with heterogeneous firms

Long, Ngo Van; Raff, Horst; Stähler, Frank - 2009

This paper examines how trade liberalization affects the innovation incentives of firms, and what this implies for industry productivity. For this purpose we develop a reciprocal dumping model of international trade with heterogeneous firms and endogenous R&D. Among the robust results that hold...

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Parallel imports and innovation in an emerging economy

Mantovani, Andrea; Naghavi, Alireza - 2010

This paper studies the consequences of parallel import (PI) on process innovation of firms heterogeneous in their production technology. In an international setting where foreign markets differ with respect to their intellectual property rights regime, a move by a technologically inferior firm...

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A comparison between traditional and knowledge input output tables

Davies, Ronald B.; Yang, Guohao - 2024

Input-Output tables have become the workhorse data structure when considering global supply chains since, by definition, they measure how production in one countrysector is linked to that in another via trade in intermediate inputs. What traditional input-output tables miss, however, is the role...

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