total factor productivity growth in Korea, Mexico, and Jordan. Measures of foreign research and development are constructed … the South. The findings show that technology diffusion and productivity gains tend to be regional. Jordan benefits mainly …

total factor productivity relationship. Static externalities refer to current period scale or industry-size effects which … externalities refer to the relationship between accumulated or prior period knowledge and current levels of innovation, where past … learning-by-doing makes innovation positively related to cumulative production over time. Our empirical specification allows …

productivity of R&D resources in generating innovation (patenting) and productivity (TFP). While we find that knowledge diffusion …The diffusion of knowledge in the world generates positive externalities if knowledge flows increase the productivity … of R&D. Our work analyzes knowledge diffusion and knowledge externalities in generating innovation and in determining …