innovation costs and industry concentration then ensures that improved international knowledge diffusion coincides with an …In recent years firms have started to offshore their innovation activities to emerging economies. This paper … investigates the implications of innovation offshoring for productivity growth in a two-country framework that features a tension …

diffusion channels and two types (national versus USPTO) of patent filings. Knowledge spillovers to EMEs accruing from (i) the … language, culture or geographical characteristics in knowledge diffusion. Overall, the breadth and depth of knowledge …