There is an increasing appreciation for the role that facilitating institutions play in successful innovation. Most commonly these institutions are discussed and analysed as innovation systems. National Innovation Systems were the first type identified, and a range of other forms of innovation...

A corollary of the principle of comparative advantage is that international trade will lead to economic convergence between countries. This encouragement of development makes trade a central part of the economic policies of agencies such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank....

There have been a number of studies recently which have analysed international trade as a complex network. Most of these have concluded that trade connections within the network show a power-law distribution. This is generally assumed to mean that the world trade web has grown through the...

International trade plays a central role in economic growth. However, there is a need to better explain the mechanism through which this occurs. This paper uses complex network analysis to investigate the contribution international trade makes to growth in small population developed economies,...