This paper reports on a part of work for the UNIDO initiative on technology transfer for sustainable industrial development. The proposed technology transfer framework, adapted from the East Asian late industrialisers model, identifies two categories of countries requiring support for enhancing their technological capabilities: (a) very late industrialisers (“low income” developing countries), ...

This paper explores the possibility of international technology transfer in lieu trade a model with absolute and comparative advantage. Countries having advantage producing good may offer that to possible trading partner against fee both countries might gain. Thus, gains from be dominated by depending on extent advantages. We provide detailed conditions under which free equilibrium will pre-emp...

We investigate the effects of low-carbon technology transfer between two rival manufacturers on their economic, environmental, and social welfare performance under a cap-and-trade policy. model ...

The TRIPs agreement does not appear likely to alleviate any wealth differences arising from the existing North-South technology divide. Open-economy endogenous growth models suggest a dynamic shift towards further concentration of industrial R&D in the Northern countries. While production of goods developed as an outcome of this R&D may shift to Southern countries through the actions of multina...

This paper studies the relationship between technology and trade specialisation and their dynamics. We use an index of revealed comparative advantage based on trade data to measure international trade specialisation and one based on patent data to measure international technological specialisation. The empirical analysis shows that the relationship between the two is not strong, thus con...rmin...