We analyse how spatial disparities in innovation activities, coupled with migration costs, affect economic geography …

additions to leading-edge knowledge) and ii) its diffusion to adoptive knowledge through innovation (defined here as later … applications of knowledge to low cost production methods). The model incorporates my theory that invention, innovation, and …

We provide a unified framework for quantifying the cross country and cross-sector interactions among trade, innovation … model in which comparative advantage and the stock of knowledge are determined by innovation and diffusion. A reduction in … trade costs induces a re-allocation of comparative advantage in production and innovation across sectors, which translates …

We provide a unified framework for quantifying the cross-country and cross-sector interactions among trade, innovation … advantage and the stock of knowledge are determined by innovation and diffusion. We calibrate the model to match observed cross …-country and cross-sector heterogeneity in production, innovation efficiency and knowledge spillovers. Our counterfactual analysis …

This paper challenges the key assumption in "idea based growth models" that innovation rents ultimately reward the … bulk of the innovation rents and are generally the residual claimant. We develop a model that separates invention from … innovation where new ideas are a costless spillover from profit motivated corporate R&D aimed at improving existing production …