In this paper we integrate the insights of the Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship and Innovation (KSTE+I) with Schumpeter's idea that innovative entrepreneurs creatively apply available local knowledge, possibly mediated by Marshallian, Jacobian and Porter spillovers. In more detail,...

Resumen COVID-19 forced an abrupt change in the teaching-learning process. From a scheme based on face-to-face teaching, we moved to a unique and exclusive system of virtual education. This change in the educational system involved forced adaptations of both students and teachers without a prior...

El desarrollo y la industrialización, en la segunda mitad del siglo XX, precisan de la modernizaciónde los sistemas obsoletos de producción y demandan de la educación la formación de un capitalhumano con capacidad para afrontar el anunciado proceso de transferencia tecnológica. La...

El presente documento realiza un análisis estratégico para vincular las actividades de investigación a las prácticas docentes. El objetivo del mismo es elaborar una formulación con base en la discusión que sobre la enseñanza y la investigación de la economía ha suscitado el debate...

En este documento se realiza una caracterización de las exportaciones industriales colombianas en el periodo 1990-2010, comparando la clasificación convencional de las exportaciones (tradicionales y no tradicionales) con la de los contenidos tecnológicos de Sanjaya Lall (2000) y resaltando...

We modify the standard trade model introducing the possibility of biased technological changes. This model help to explain the falling labor shares as well as the mixed changes in skill premium in developing countries after trade liberalization takes place.

This dissertation consists of four essays in the economics of digital transformation and specifically considers the link between geography and digitalization in the know-ledge economy.

Embedding new technology creates opportunities and challenges for the global value chain (GVC). Using country-level panel data from 59 economies in 2007–2018, we construct a fixed-effects model to investigate the relationship between digital technology and the GVC position. Moreover, we...

Knowledge from customers, suppliers, competitors, universities, is a key input in the innovative process of firms. However, firms must have absorption capacity to take advantage of such external knowledge. Based on the concept of absorptive capacity, this paper aims to analyze the impact that...

This paper establishes that the rise in employer-provided training due to technological change has dampened the college wage premium. Using unique survey micro-data, I show that hightechnology firms provide more training overall, but the gap in training participation between high- and low-skill...