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Globalization and Technology Diffusion : The Case of Mobile Phones
Lebesmuehlbacher, Thomas - 2016
This paper examines to what degree trade, FDI and migration promote cellphone usage in developed and developing countries. Since the usage of cellphones requires the installation of costly infrastructure, I analyze the intensive and extensive margin of cellphone diffusion separately. Estimating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012995893
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Intellectual Property Rights and South-North global innovation networks
Prarolo, Giovanni; Naghavi, Alireza; Comune, Maria - 2011
data from a new survey on Chinese and Indian firms in the ICT sector, we find IPR protection to be key in the engagement of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011737175
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Chapter 19. International Trade, Foreign Direct Investment, and Technology Spillovers
Keller, Wolfgang - 2010
This chapter examines how international flows of technological knowledge affect economic performance across industries and firms across different countries. Motivated by the large share of the world's technology investments made by firms that are active across country borders, we focus on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025152
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Global Investments and Regional Development Trajectories : The Missing Links
Crescenzi, Riccardo - 2016
Regional economic development has been long conceptualised as a non-linear, interactive and socially embedded process: these features were traditionally regarded as spatially mediated and highly localised. However, unprecedentedly fast technological change coupled with the intensification of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012980363
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Nationality matters : the geographic origin of multinationals and the productivity of their foreign affiliates
Arndt, Christian; Spies, Julia - 2012
While quantifying the foreign ownership premium has received a lot of attention in the empirical literature, there is only little known about productivity variations between foreign affiliates of multinational firms. In order to enhance the understanding of the economic causes of this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009515296
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Innovation and knowledge spillovers in developing countries
Bascavusoglu, Elif - 2007
The purpose of this paper is to evaluate empirically the determinants of innovative activities in emerging countries, with particular attention to national, international and intersectoral knowledge spillovers. Our study concerns 16 emerging and 10 technology source countries, for the period...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288731
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Geographical Localization of International Technology Diffusion
Keller, Wolfgang - 2012
Convergence in per capita income across countries turns on whether technological knowledge spillover are global or local. This paper estimates the amount of spillover from R&D expenditures in major industrialized countries on a geographic basis. A new data set is used which encompasses most of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014164142
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Foreign R&D Satellites as a Medium for the International Diffusion of Knowledge
Blit, Joel - 2018
We examine the extent to which foreign R&D satellites of multinational firms act as a medium for the international diffusion of knowledge. Using patents from the United States Patent and Trademark Office, we compare the frequency with which headquarters patents are cited by third-party firms in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012916452
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Innovation and knowledge spillovers in developing countries
Bascavusoglu, Elif (contributor) - 2007
The purpose of this paper is to evaluate empirically the determinants of innovative activities in emerging countries, with particular attention to national, international and intersectoral knowledge spillovers. Our study concerns 16 emerging and 10 technology source countries, for the period...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003486194
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Der Umbau der Welt : wohin führt die Neue Seidenstraße?
Behrens, Uwe - 2022 - 1. Auflage
Uwe Behrens, der 27 Jahre in China gearbeitet hat, stellt kenntnisreich und exklusiv dieses einzigartige Projekt vor. Er … setzt sich auch mit den kritischen Angriffen und Vorhaltungen auseinander: China treibe die beteiligten Länder in eine … politischen Expansion und lediglich einem Ziel diene: die Volksrepublik China zur stärksten Wirtschaftsmacht zu machen und die USA …
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