This paper studies the question whether skill-biased technical change diffuses internationally and that way contributes to the increasing relative skill demand in other countries. So far, the role of skill-biased technology diffusion has hardly been studied empirically. Using new sectoral data...

In this study, we use a cross-sectionally correlated and timewise autoregressive model and panel data for the period 1966-2000 to investigate human development as a measure of host country absorptive capacity in 30 developed and developing countries. The results suggest that technology diffusion...

Recent liberalization of technology flows in several less developed nations necessitates study into the possible effects of this significant shift in policy. This paper uses a unique firm-level dataset, modeling the choice between R&D expenditures and technology licensing behavior in Brazil,...

Young technology ventures are strongly affected by technological environmental conditions. In the light of opportunity theory, this study focuses on the interaction of a young firm's technological base and the pace of technological development in its field. It distinguishes three technological...

Innovation processes within corporations increasingly tap into international technology sources, yet little is known about the relative contribution of different types of innovation channels. We investigate the effectiveness of different types of international technology sourcing activities...

This paper develops a two-country general equilibrium model of technology sharing to study world trade patterns. A technologically advanced country enjoys the benefit of comparative advantage due to her access to superior technology. The static model presented in this paper comes out with...

This study here suggests a classification of technologies based on taxonomic characteristics of interaction between technologies in complex systems that is not a studied research field in economics of technical change. The proposed taxonomy here categorizes technologies in four typologies, in a...

This paper posits that firms' corporate and technological diversification profiles and their relatedness in terms of products and technologies impact their propensity to form alliances for exploitation and exploration. The empirical investigation employs a dataset of all tire producers worldwide...

This case follows Sethu Sethunarayanan, Director of the non-profit Center for the Development of Disadvantaged People (CDDP), which is dedicated to the improvement of the Irula tribe in rural villages of southeast India. The Irulas specialize in catching rats, an activity which provides the bulk...