Technology clubs, technology gaps and growth trajectories
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Munich Personal RePEc Archive Technology clubs , technology gaps and growth trajectories
This paper looks at the convergence clubs literature from a Schumpeterian perspective, and it follows the idea that cross-country differences in the ability to innovate and to imitate foreign technologies determine the existence of clustering, polarization and convergence clubs. The study investigates the characteristics of different technology clubs and the growth trajectories that they have f...
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عنوان ژورنال: Structural Change and Economic Dynamics
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0954-349X
DOI: 10.1016/j.strueco.2008.07.002