Although economic globalization has transformed contemporary conceptions of space, location still matters enormously for both individual entrepreneurs seeking to develop a sustainable business and policy makers looking to foster entrepreneurship within a particular city or region. In making the...

This chapter explores pertinent international trends in decision and articulates contemporary discourse in the discrete domain of the relationship between smart technologies and human security and global justice. The fundamental aim of the chapter is to assess the rather rapidly developing...

This paper documents the influence of diaspora networks of high-skilled individuals - i.e., inventors - on international technological collaborations. By means of gravity models, it studies the determinants of the internationalization of inventive activity between a group of industrialized...

This paper develops a simulation model of firm dynamics in global competition and analyzes multinational growth strategies and optimal coordination of innovative activities. It shows that growth and innovation strategies of operatively engaged headquarters (business or corporate) with a...

We identify strong cross-border institutions as a driver for the globalization of in-novation. Using 67 million patents from over 100 patent offices, we introduce novel measures of innovation diffusion and collaboration. Exploiting staggered bilateral in-vestment treaties as shocks to...

This paper studies the global synchronicity of technology and its impact on the economy. We employ dynamic factor analysis to decompose patent data in different digital technologies for various countries into global and country-specific factors. Our findings confirm the existence of global and...