This article compares African countries to South Korea in terms of knowledge economy (KE). Emphasis is laid on human … capital, knowledge creation, knowledge diffusion, institutions and economic incentives. The analytical approach consists of … providing knowledge economy catch-up strategies that can be understood within the context of country-specific gaps between the …

present evidence of a trade-off between distance to the headquarters and the knowledge intensity of the foreign subsidiary … headquarters is, on average, about one percent higher in the knowledge intensity scale. I find no evidence of the knowledge …

present evidence of a trade-off between distance to the headquarters and the knowledge intensity of the foreign subsidiary … headquarters is, on average, about one percent higher in the knowledge intensity scale. I find no evidence of the knowledge …