The advancement of the knowledge frontier is crucial for technological innovation and human progress. Using novel data … talent is a central ingredient in the production of knowledge. Second, such talented individuals born in low- or middle …-income countries are systematically less likely to become knowledge producers. Our findings suggest that policies to encourage …

How important is foreign knowledge for domestic innovation outcomes? How is this relation shaped by globalization and … barriers to the domestic diffusion of foreign knowledge have fallen significantly for emerging economies. For all countries …, and especially for emerging economies, inflows of foreign knowledge have a growing and quantitatively important impact on …

The knowledge production function is central to R&D-based growth models. This paper empirically investigates the … knowledge production function and intertemporal spillover effects using cointegration techniques. Time-series evidence suggests … there are two long-run cointegrating relationships. The first captures a long-run knowledge production function; the second …

The effects on growth of the integration of an autarkic country into the world economy are analyzed, focusing on the … foreign knowledge; subsequently, as it approaches the knowledge frontier, innovation plays a greater role. Late developers … catch up with the rest of the world more rapidly than early developers, reflecting the relatively large imitation …