original R&D and primarily depend on foreign technology. Long-term contracts and subcontracting arrangements within global … value chains are here very important forms of transnational cooperation and therefore also important channels for technology … firm upgrading in non-OECD countries and technology transfer within global value chains. …

in the long-run. However, the degree to which the North-South technology gap can be narrowed depends crucially on the … innovations in the South narrows the technology gap only in the short-run. An optimal development policy requires more capital to …, the absorptive capacity rises steadily with the aim to close the technology gap completely. Our results show that an …

have in fact substantially increased the GDP-ratio of technology imports over the past few years, but that there are large … cross-country discrepancies in technology upgrading within this group. General-purpose technology continues to constitute … the bulk of technology imports, while sector-specific technology used for labour-intensive activities has gained in …

efficiency. However, once we include technology transfer as an additional output, the coefficient of private funding is …

We investigate a sample of 180 technology licensing contracts closed by German chemical, pharmaceutical, and electrical …. Moreover, our results suggest that uncertainty regarding the profitability of licensed technology influenced the design of …

evaluation of the recent debate on the issue of technology licensing and competitiveness in the global economy. In addition, the … extended to analyze the choice of a technology holder between direct investment and licensing in an attempt to serve a foreign …

sources, endangering the continuity of the technology transfer function and creating disincentives to invest in its …

developing countries (South) through its impact on innovation, market structure and technology transfer. In a North-South trade … can protect their technology by exporting or risk spillovers by undertaking FDI to avoid tariffs. A stringent IPR regime … is always optimal for the South as it triggers technology transfer by inducing FDI in less R&D-intensive industries and …

The paper develops a model in which a country with better technology for abatement of Green House Gas (GHG) emission … the mitigation effort in the other country (the South) with unconditional transfer of abatement technology. It finds out … in the autarkic ('no trade') equilibrium the technology transfer offer from the North is always accepted by the South …