realistic dispersion of income levels with modest barriers to technology adoption. Human capital and physical capital contribute … to income differences both directly (as usual), and indirectly by boosting resources devoted to technology adoption. The … model implies that most of income above subsistence is made possible by international diffusion of knowledge. …

-term nature of many environmental problems, such as climate change, makes understanding the evolution of technology an important …

strongly appeal to policy-makers in science, technology and innovation policy. It will also benefit students and academics … interested in innovation, science, technology and innovation policy, the economics of innovation, as well as the history and … multidimensional and detailed analysis of a set of core technologies and their uneven diffusion process in eight countries of quite …

-grown" technology abroad. FDI frequently also entails the generation of knowledge abroad in own R&D facilities the nature of which … increasingly shifts from adaptation to innovation development and knowledge-seeking. In addition, international technological …