Our contribution to the expanding literature on the globalization of research andinnovation is to investigate the extent to which sector-specific developments in anemerging technology (such as increasing interdisciplinarity and complexity) affectinventive activities developed abroad. We look at...

This study focuses on the early stages of international innovation activities, i.e. theorganizational processes through which promising ideas from around the globe are collectedand evaluated. We ask: What characteristics make foreign knowledge interesting to domesticR&D managers? We envision...

We study the optimal R&D trajectory in a setting where new technologiesare never perfect backstops in the sense that there is no perfectlyclean technology that eventually solves the pollution problem once andfor all. New technologies have stings attached, i.e. each emits a specificstock...