Increasingly, a small number of low-wage countries such as China and India are involved in innovation -- not `big ideas …' innovation, but the constant incremental innovations needed to stay ahead in business. We provide some evidence of this new … innovation in low-wage countries. We explain why levels of involvement in innovation vary across low-wage countries and even …

Increasingly, a small number of low-wage countries such as China and India are involved in innovation -- not `big ideas …' innovation, but the constant incremental innovations needed to stay ahead in business. We provide some evidence of this new … innovation in low-wage countries. We explain why levels of involvement in innovation vary across low-wage countries and even …

innovation. That is, they are responsible for resolving production-line bugs and suggesting product improvements. We provide … involving incremental innovation in low-wage countries. The model explains why levels of involvement in incremental innovation …

-wage countries, especially China. Does this competition hurt or help innovation by firms? This paper studies the effect of the surge … in imports from China on innovation in the US manufacturing sector. We combine patent, firm and trade data during 1990 … positive effect on firm innovation, as measured by citation-weighted patent applications. This positive effect persists when we …