Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The Economics of Knowledge -- Chapter 3: The New Direction of Technological Change -- Chapter 4: The Dynamics of Knowledge Governance: Schumpeterian growth regimes -- Chapter 5: The Political Economy of the Knowledge Growth Regime -- Chapter 6: Towards a New...

This paper investigates the determinants of vertical integration using data from the UK manufacturing sector. We find that the relationship between a downstream (producer) industry and an upstream (supplier) industry us more likely to be vertically integrated when the producing industry is more...

We construct and estimate a unified model combining three of the main sources of cross-country income disparities: differences in factor endowments, barriers to technology adoption and the inappropriateness of frontier technologies to local conditions. The key components are different types of...