Theoretical models of growth reveal that either exogenous or endogenous, technology is the main driving force behind … the long-run economic growth. Furthermore, in the endogenous growth framework, diffusion of technology is the basic … of foreign direct investment (FDI), considering that the latter is an international technology diffusion channel …

regions is due to convergence in technology as well as to convergence in capital-labour ratios. We first develop a growth …In this paper we study two closely related issues. First, the role of technology heterogeneity and diffusion in the … pattern of the observed regional heterogeneity in technology and the relevance of this pattern for the econometric analysis of …