This paper develops a quantitative, multi-country model of endogenous growth, international trade, and international … knowledge flows in order to understand how access to both foreign products and technologies, together, influences innovation … about and applying research previously conducted abroad. The effect of trade barriers on the level and dispersion of income …

concentration and firm size. These determine the scale and the efficiency of R&D operations and the (average) rate of innovation. If …

journals and books, examines the consequences for world trade of the restructuring – commonly termed ‘globalisation’ that arose … out of the Uruguay round of the GATT and let to the reconstruction of the World Trade Organisation in its present form …, beginning in 1982. It establishes that the widely-held view of the system of world trade as a symmetric free trade system is …

Economic interest in innovation policy largely arises from the fundamental importance of innovation to social welfare … and from inefficiencies in innovation in a competitive market environment. As a result, a wide variety of public … innovation policies are used in practice. This study reviews the economic justifications for public innovation policies and …

of innovation process and this value is undoubtedly transferred to patents that are created in order to fulfill …