This paper provides a selective survey of over half a century of research linking the neoclassical trade model to the data. Three lessons stand out. First, competitive and new trade theory models are complementary rather than competing ways to look at many existing empirical regularities....

Our contribution to the expanding literature on the globalization of research and innovation is to investigate the extent to which sector-specific developments in an emerging technology (such as increasing interdisciplinarity and complexity) affect inventive activities developed abroad. We look...

Rezension: Mit dem Band "Klein aber fein!" setzen Peter Kriwy und Christiane Gross die Reihe "Forschung und Entwicklung in der Analytischen Soziologie" fort. Sie rücken mit dieser Zusammenstellung ein Thema in den Vordergrund, das lange ein Schattendasein geführt hat. So ist das Streben der...