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Social Capital and growth in European regions
Neira, I.; Portela, M.; Vieira, E. - In: Regional and Sectoral Economic Studies 10 (2010) 2
Theories of economic growth at the regional and national level, have expanded the traditional production function of the Solow model towards a wide function that collects conditioning factors of labour productivity, measured by R & D expenditure, the number of patents, the human capital, the...
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Innovation diffusion, technological convergence and economic growth
Andergassen, Rainer; Nardini, Franco; Ricottilli, Massimo - 2013
The paper investigates the mechanics through which novel technological principles are developed and diffused throughout an economy consisting of a technologically heterogeneous ensemble of firms. In the model entrepreneurs invest in the discovery and in the diffusion of a technological principle...
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Chapter 3 Horizontal Innovation in the Theory of Growth and Development
Gancia, Gino; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - 2005
We analyze recent contributions to growth theory based on the model of expanding variety of Romer [Romer, P. (1990). “Endogenous technological change”. Journal of Political Economy 98, 71–102]. In the first part, we present different versions of the benchmark linear model with imperfect...
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Cross-border institutions and the globalization of innovation
Bian, Bo; Meier, Jean-Marie; Xu, Ting - 2021
We identify strong cross-border institutions as a driver for the globalization of in-novation. Using 67 million patents from over 100 patent offices, we introduce novel measures of innovation diffusion and collaboration. Exploiting staggered bilateral in-vestment treaties as shocks to...
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FDI policies and catching-up
Santos, Eleonora; Khan, Shahed - 2019
drop in industrial output along with a reduction in FDI attraction. This paper assesses the efficacy of the Investment … between FDI inward flows and a set of innovation and absorptive capacity indicators. Results show that the gap between …
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Innovation, Diffusion, and Trade : Theory and Measurement
Santacreu, Ana Maria - 2015
What are the sources of economic growth? This paper presents a multicountry growth model of innovation and the adoption of foreign technologies through trade. The costs of both domestic innovation and adopting foreign innovations are estimated using data on innovation, output and trade. A...
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Innovation, industrial dynamics and economic growth
Stadler, Manfred - 2015
We present a class of dynamic general-equilibrium models of education, innovation and technology transfer to explain the evolution of industries and aggregate growth in closed and open economies. Firms employ educated workers in order to develop higher-quality products. The realization of...
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Global innovation spillovers and productivity : evidence from 100 years of World Patent Data
Berkes, Enrico; Manysheva, Kristina; Mestieri, Martí - 2022
We use a panel of historical patent data covering a large range of countries over the past century to study the evolution of innovation across time and space and its effect on productivity. We document a substantial rise of international knowledge spillovers as measured by patent citations since...
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EU-US trade post-trump perspectives: TTIP aspects related to foreign direct investment and innovation
Jungmittag, Andre; Welfens, Paul J. J. - In: International Economics and Economic Policy 17 (2020) 1, pp. 259-294
trade induced real income gains while the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)-related and innovation induced benefits have been … largely neglected, although the EU and the US are leading FDI host countries and FDI source countries. Moreover, from a … theoretical perspective a knowledge production function has to be considered in order to analyze FDI and innovation dynamics – and …
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Beyond EU-US trade dynamics : TTIP effects related to foreign direct investment and innovation
Jungmittag, Andre; Welfens, Paul J. J. - 2017
trade induced real income gains while the FDI related and innovation induced benefits have been largely neglected, although … the EU and the US are leading FDI host countries and FDI source countries. Moreover, from a theoretical perspective a … knowledge production function has to be considered in order to analyze FDI and innovation dynamics - and this can then be linked …
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