For most of the post-war period developing countries have been told that relying on licensing for technology transfer is likely to yield disappointing results. However, this view of licensing has come a full circle as technology services trade has boomed since the 1990s. We outline the main...

The atom refining strategy is used for the design of COP-X (X = S, N, O) as the efficient photocatalysts for CO2 conversion. Both photoelectrochemical experiments and computational explorations demonstrate that the electron delocalization and reaction barrier can be well regulated by single atom...

Instead of focusing on the conflict of interests between North and South, the author studies the conflict of interests among southern countries and provides an alternative answer to the question: why do southern countries have little incentive to protect northern intellectual property rights?...

We conduct a meta-analysis of more than 30 papers that study the causal relationship between exporting and firm productivity. Our results, robust to different specifications and to different weights for each observation, indicate that the impact of exporting upon productivity is higher 1) at...

The literature on the link between multinationality and firm performance has generally disregarded the role of geography. However, the geography of FDI may matter, particularly now that globalisation has increased the heterogeneity of overseas investments. Moreover, although the range of...

Activity bundle (AB) simulation is a method for obtaining a specific contact network (specific to target infectious disease) from the space – time dynamics of individuals constrained both by their social activity and by the physical condition of the space. Taking advantage of AB simulation,...

This paper intends to develop a model for investigating the effects of technological innovation on geographic organization choice, and some of the risks involved. An increase in profits and a reduction in resource requirements by adapting related innovation could increase motivation around the...

A novel reformer with porous ceramic oxygen distribution tube circled by electric wire for inspiring hot electron was designed for auto-thermal reforming of biomass raw fuel gas to produce syngas (H2+CO). The temperature of auto-thermal reformer was nearly uniform due to the excellent...