其他摘要：This paper analyses two significant and to date open issues regarding the role of trade as a channel for international technology spillovers. The first refers to its relative impact on growth in comparison to that of own R&D spending. The second has to do with the importance of the technological gap to take advantage of foreign technology. For this purpose we estimate a version of the growth model proposed by Benhabib and Spiegel (1994), which includes some modifications to better capture the technology di��usion process. Our results first suggest that domestic R&D and human capital stocks are critical for foreign technology adoption. Secondly, they indicate that richer countries are more successful in taking advantage of international technology spillovers.
