discusses some of the interpretative achievements stemming from e.g. the economics of innovation, industrial economics …

innovation and imitation. We develop a theoretical model showing that skilled labor has a higher growth-enhancing effect closer … to the technological frontier under the reasonable assumption that innovation is a relatively more skillintensive …

This paper reviews the emergence and evolution of major topics in economics of innovation. Throughout the paper …

essential role in transforming their national innovation systems so that they can be more adaptable to economic development. The … innovation activities. Balancing import of technology and indigenous R&D effort is another major theme. Innovation capability … influence on choice of innovation at the firm level, i.e., the decision at firm level in terms of indigenous R&D or import of …

-alone essays. The first essay models how financial development affects growth through utilization of technological innovation …. Based on explicit modeling of the innovation channel of finance, the results show a significant and positive sign for the … interaction term between the measure of a country's own innovation and financial development in the most important specifications …