Forschung und Entwicklung (FuE) werden in Ost- und Westeuropa gleichermaßen als Voraussetzung für eine nachhaltige wirtschaftliche Entwicklung angesehen. Aus diesem Grunde wären die Innovationsfähigkeit sowie Reformen im Wissenschafts- und Technologiebereich der EU-Beitrittskandidaten als...

This papers sheds light on the puzzling evidence that even though open source software (OSS) is a public good, it is developed for free by highly qualified, young and motivated individuals, and evolves at a rapid pace. We show that once OSS development is understood as the private provision of a...

Our paper decomposes knowledge-diffusing trade flows and estimates their impacts separately. Overall, trade generates positive knowledge spillovers, but the effects of intra-industry trade are ambiguous. With regard to sectoral import penetration, we find that potential positive spillovers are...

Reexamining foreign direct investment (FDI) as a potential channel for knowledge diffusion -- based on industry data from seventeen OECD countries during the period 1973-2000 -- we find that FDI-receiving countries benefit strongly from FDI-related knowledge spillovers. We do not find evidence...