innovation and the collection and use of detailed consumer and market data. I describe these changes and some of the economic …

Southern firms and monitoring costs if they do offshore innovation and production. The model predicts that a strengthening of …I theoretically analyze the effects of a strengthening IPR protection and an improvement of technology of innovation of … offshoring on the rate of innovation offshoring, rate of imitation, rate of innovation, relative wages, real wages and domestic …

Technology and innovation play an increasingly important role in the economic development of both developed and … innovation or imitation by developing a conceptual model and then empirically testing it using pesticide innovation data from a … rapidly developing country, China. We find that the government encouraged local innovation by opening regions to more …

1999-2004 and measure innovation performance by the (value-adjusted) number of patent applications at the European Patent … firms as well as immobile workers on the innovation performance of their employer. Our main result is that mobile university … scientists contribute substantially more to innovation than R&D workers hired from other firms who, in turn, contribute slightly …

substitute for incomplete (legal) protection of innovation effort. They may help firms settle the resulting fairness issue, and …, through successful innovation, competitors might gain an advantage. This is the case if the opposite market side has …

innovation? We find that corruption, functioning as a bribe tax, diminishes the probability of new product introduction. We use a … on the average quantity of bribe paid by firms. Controlling for innovation determinants, firm characteristics, location … significant impact on product innovation. …

This study develops an R&D-based growth model with vertical and horizontal innovation to shed some light on the current … debate on whether patent protection stimulates or stifles innovation. We analyze the effects of patent protection in the form … of blocking patents. We show that patent protection changes the direction of innovation by having asymmetric effects on …

This paper introduces service innovation in the proximity-concentration trade-off model of trade and FDI (Helpman …, Melitz and Yeaple, 2004). The idea is that innovation will have two main effects on service firms’ choice between exports and … to avoid (or reduce) these costs by choosing a FDI strategy instead. We test the empirical relevance of this idea on a …