}. We present a multicountry model of technological innovation and diffusion which has the implication that, for a wide …

-contained chapters. All chapters discuss different implications of the growing importance of trade in intermediate inputs. The first … chapter compares the impact of international trade in intermediate inputs (offshoring) on wage inequality in two distinct but … intellectual property rights and of offshoring costs on the rate of innovation and on the offshoring intensity. In chapter 4 I …

R&D than non-cooperating firms if spillovers are sufficiently large. Further, market demand and R&D productivity have a … collaborate in R&D is increasing in R&D productivity. The key findings of the theoretical model are tested using German innovation … survey data for the service sector. A simultaneous model for cooperation choice and innovation expenditures shows that R …

&D-cooperations. The results of a microeconometric analysis, based on firm data on innovation, let in general presume that with intensified … competition also the influence of spillovers on R&D-cooperation increases. However, competition seems to induce firms to search … for effective firm-specific appropriation facilities first. Spillovers that are sufficiently high such that the …

characteristics. Taking into account the pressure from existing or potential competition ambiguous effects of spillovers on R …