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General Purpose Technologies and local knowledge accumulation : a study on MNC subunits and local innovation centers

Qiu, Ranfeng; Cantwell, John - In: International business review : the official journal of … 27 (2018) 4, pp. 826-837

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Importing automation and wage inequality through foreign acquisitions

Gardberg, Malin; Heyman, Fredrik; Tåg, Joacim - 2023

Is technology or trade driving increases in wage inequality? We propose that technology interacts with trade in the … form of foreign direct investments to widen domestic wage inequality. We show that foreign acquisitions of domestic firms …, but this may come at the cost of increased domestic wage inequality. …

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Human Capital, Innovation and Technology Diffusion

Messinis, George; Ahmed, Abdullahi - 2012

This paper develops a new latent index of human capital identified as valuable skills for seventy countries for the period 1970-2003. The index is compared to existing measures of human capital in assessing the Benhabib and Spiegel (2005) model of logistic technology diffusion. The study...

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An Empirical Analysis of Technological Convergence Process and Rjvs in Europe at the Firm Level

Bussoli, Patrizia - 2012

We use a new data set for European manufacturing firms to assess whether a short term technological convergence process has been taking place among manufacturing firms in seven European countries. The empirical analysis aims to study the effects of international co-operative R&D on short term...

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Volatility and Slow Technology Diffusion

Ferraro, Domenico - 2017

I study the effects of uncertainty on technology adoption and thereby on volatility and growth. I present an analytically-tractable model in which: (i) uncertainty about the returns to adoption delays technology diffusion; and (ii) the mean and volatility of output growth are jointly determined...

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Chapter 48 Information Networks in Dynamic Agrarian Economies

Munshi, Kaivan - In: Handbook of development economics : volume 4, (pp. 3085-3113). 2007

Over the past 50 years, people living in developing countries have gained access to technologies, such as high yielding agricultural seed varieties and modern medicine, that have the potential to dramatically alter the quality of their lives. Although the adoption of these technologies has...

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Horizontal and Vertical FDI : A Comparative Analysis of Technological Determinants

Franco, Chiara - 2010

The study analyzes the role played by technological determinants, using the approach of National System of Innovation (NSI), in enhancing or hampering Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) with different motivations, namely horizontal and vertical FDI. The empirical analysis is carried out using data...

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The Role of Technology Diffusion on Industrial Export : Empirical Analysis of Iranian Economy

Shahabadi, Aboulfazl - 2012

Recent theories of international economics deal with oriented innovation in reaction to economic incentives as a main engine of technological progress and competitiveness. The aim of this study is to investigate the role of real variables such as stock accumulation of domestic R&D activities and...

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Technology and human development

Ranis, Gustav - 2011

Human development, in combination with technology, yields economic growth which, in turn, is necessary to generate further advances in human development. This paper focuses on the first channel above and finds the relationship significant. Secondly, the paper tries to investigate what affects...

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Heterogeneity in the Internationalization of R&D : implications for anomalies in finance and macroeconomics

Grüning, Patrick - 2017 - This version: October 17, 2017

Empirical evidence suggests that investments in research and development (R&D) by older and larger firms are more spread out internationally than R&D investments by younger and smaller firms. In this paper, I explore the quantitative implications of this type of heterogeneity by assuming that...

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