This paper aims to investigate whether offshoring of R&D activity in fast-growing economies impacts on the knowledge creation of home investing countries, especially focusing on the effects on the sectoral focus/mix of knowledge production at home. In particular, the study develops an...

This paper is an empirical analysis of the interaction between the dynamics of demand, productivity and employment in nine industrial countries, viz. the United States, Canada, Japan, West Germany, France, Italy, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Belgium, from 1960-1990. Its theoretical...