This survey reviews the literature on firm dynamics, innovation and growth aiming to better understand the main … channels through which innovation affects the performance of modern economies. Since innovations fundamentally diffuse through … firm dynamics and innovation. …

I develop a multicountry-model in which economic growth is driven mainly by domestic innovation and the adoption of … foreign technologies embodied in traded intermediate goods. Fitting the model to data on innovation, output per capita, and … trade in varieties for the period 1996-2007, I estimate the costs of both domestic innovation and adopting foreign …

international diffusion through trade. Fitting the model to data on innovation, productivity, and trade in varieties, I find that …