[eng] The paper aims to assess the effects of the new deal concerning the patent regime - the so-called pro-patent era - characterized by the reinforcement of the protection offered to the inventor and a new regulation of the « markets for knowledge ». We survey very recent empirical studies...

[fre] Le but de ce papier est d'examiner les relations entre la diversification technologique et l'internationalisation technologique des firmes multinationales. Plus précisément nous posons la question de savoir si c'est l'internationalisation qui détermine la diversification. L'analyse est...

[eng] The paper presents a short overview on technological catching up at a sectoral level. By contrast with the current studies which assess this phenomenon, we consider an equation of productivity derived from the wellknown Fabricant's Law which contains a catching up variable. With OECD data...

[eng] We focus this paper on the relationship between demand growth and R&D expenditures in the perpectives opened up by Schmookler (1996). We try to quantify the effects of economic activity on R&D expenditures funded and realised by industrial firms. We used the OECD database for seven...