R&D policies, trade and process innovation

Technology Adoption and Trade Policies

We examine in a dyanmic model how a firm determines the optimal level of innovation, and how a firm chooses between innovation and imitation. This paper considers a local firm, which is competing with a foreign, more productive, firm in terms of quantity, and at the same time, the local firm is able to spend the optimal amount of resources on innovation, with the purpose of closing the technolo...

Firm Innovation, Productivity, and Trade

Firm innovation effort, productivity, and export propensity are found to be positively correlated with one another. Two alternative explanations have been offered for this — innovation increases productivity and more productive firms self-select into exporting or, alternatively, exporting increases learning and innovation, which in turn affects productivity. We use differences in timing implied...

Innovation, Di usion, and Trade

We explore the determinants of research specialization and examine the e ects of technology di usion and trade on the incentives for innovation. To some extent, di usion substitutes for trade. If trade costs are low relative to di erences in comparative advantage in doing research, rapid di usion implies specialization in research activity. Country size has an ambiguous e ect on specialization ...

Innovation and Product-Level Trade∗

The exports of poor countries are highly concentrated in the common set of products for which they have a strong comparative advantage in the product-level trade data. Rich countries, on the other hand, spread their exports very evenly across the range of products, including those in which they have a comparative disadvantage vis-a-vis poorer countries. Theories in which comparative advantage i...

Innovation Networks and Network Policies