Multinational corporations (MNC) search increasingly for lead market knowledge and technological expertise around the … globe. We investigate whether their subsidiaries gain access to these valuable sources of host country knowledge to the same …

The activities of multinational enterprises drive the economic globalization process to a very large degree. This paper … lists some facts about their dominant role in all channels of globalization. Therefore, the importance of multinational … transfer of knowledge and technology and to foreign trade. It is argued that economic theory must account for multinationals …

We examine the effects of globalization on the size and composition of tax revenues, worker-specific tax burdens, and … increasing mobility of firms and high-income workers, globalization led governments in OECD countries to seek tax revenues from …-2007, they experienced a globalization-induced rise in their personal income tax rate of around 1.5, whereas the top 1% of …

We investigate the contribution of different inputs, particularly different knowledge sources, on regional patenting … output in the framework of a knowledge production function. The knowledge sources included are R&D employment, size of public … departments, German Science Foundation (DFG), and from other sources. The contribution of these knowledge sources is tested …

Die Gründung eines innovativen Unternehmens stellt eine Form der kommerziellen Verwer-tung von Wissen dar. Der Beitrag …Setting up an innovative new firm is a way of commercializing knowledge. The paper gives an overview of the extent of … new firm formation in knowledge intensive and in innovative German industries and their development. The founding of a new …

Als Bausteine der Wissensökonomie gelten die drei in Verbindung stehenden Faktoren Wissen, Lernen und Innovationen …The three related factors knowledge, learning and innovation are regarded as the main elements of the knowledge economy … context by means of numerous innovation theory concepts. The spatial proximity of respective knowledge carriers to each other …

the theory of knowledge hierarchies in an industry equilibrium model of monopolistic competition to examine how the …