We examine productivity growth since World War II in the five leading research economies: West Germany, France, the …}. We present a multicountry model of technological innovation and diffusion which has the implication that, for a wide … range of parameter values, countries converge to a common growth rate, with relative productivities depending on the speed …

analyzes a model of North-South trade and endogenous growth through innovation and imitation that can predict the observed … both the innovation in the North and the imitational lag of the South. Opening to trade increases the growth rate and … growth ; innovation and imitation ; intellectual property rights …

linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million U.S. patents and their citation properties to map the innovation network and its … strength. Past innovation network structures are calculated using citation patterns across technology classes during 1975 …-1994. The interaction of this pre-existing network structure with patent growth in upstream technology fields has strong …

capital is positively influenced by the size of the R&D sector, sheds new light on innovation and growth as well as income …The innovative approach presented introduces a modified neoclassical growth model which includes a new bias of … technological progress in a quasi-endogenous growth model in which part of labor is used in the research & development sector. The …

We develop a tractable dynamic model of productivity growth and technology spillovers that is consistent with the … firms farther from the frontier try to imitate more productive technologies. The equilibrium choice leads to a balanced-growth …

at different stages of development when entering in a new catching-up cycle. Thus, the technological drivers of growth …] can play different roles to accelerate the rate of growth and change their relative position in the leadership rank (win …

growth rate. A crucial implication of these results is that protection of intellectual property is most beneficial in open …

growth rate. A crucial implication of these results is that protection of intellectual property is most beneficial in open …

adverse effect on the world growth rate. These results provide a strong rationale for global regulations, critical in a system … of interdependent economies, for sustaining innovation and reducing income inequality. Supportive empirical evidence is …