This paper develops a theoretical and empirical model to analyze the effects of the size of domestic markets on the international competitiveness of national industries. We validate our theory using data on the more than 20,000 plants in the sector producing engineering services for...

The powerful General Purpose Technology (GPT)-concept of the late 1990s is a culmination of evolutionary views in innovation-thinking. The scholarly contributions focusing on the (macro)-economical aspects being numerous, the technological aspects of the GPT-concept seem underdeveloped. Richard...

The concept of the General Purpose Technology (GPT) of the late 1990s is a culmination of many evolutionary views in innovation-thinking. By definition the GPT considers the technical, social, and economic effects of meta-technologies like steam-technology and electric technology. This paper...

The unintended economic effect on society as result of individual behaviour — Adam Smith’s ‘Invisible Hand’ of economic progress in the eighteenth century — had its equivalent in technological progress. In the nineteenth century, again individual behaviour with its Acts of Innovation...

Out of around 200 countries in the world, only 75 have number portability. What are the international factors that explain the diffusion of this regulatory policy? Research on policy diffusion offers several explanations: constructivist, coercion, competition, and learning. Each of these...

This paper argues that the underprovision of public goods can be partly explained by lower demand from Indigenous groups with high preferences for Indigenous identity and a high capacity for coordination. Examining the post-Mexican Revolution period (1920s-1950s), when the state used the first...