Trade and Innovation

Trade plays key roles in fostering innovation, both as a conduit for the diffusion of global technology and knowhow that facilitates innovation in developing nations and by giving innovative companies access to large global markets through which they can recoup their upfront investments in R&D and generate revenues to finance future generations of innovation. GTIPA-member reports here examine trade-innovation linkages.

Navigating the Headwinds: Mitigating Contention in India-US Business Engagement

This ICRIER reports addresses contemporary challenges in U.S.-India economic and trade relations and provides insights as to how they can be best addressed and resolved.

ICRIERTue, 04/01/2014

Ties That Bind, 2014 Edition: The San Francisco Bay Area’s Economic Links to Greater China

This report examines the long-standing commercial and cultural ties that exist between the San Francisco Bay Area and greater China.

The Bay Area Council Economic InstituteThu, 01/23/2014

Impact of American Investment in India

This ICRIER study investigates the socioeconomic impact of American investment in India and identifies the challenges faced by the American investors in India. A multi-sector survey, based on in-person interviews with key stakeholders, it has been juxtaposed with relevant secondary data to elucidate the spillovers of the direct investment by U.S. entities in India.

ICRIERWed, 01/01/2014

Who Else Benefits from CETA? Some Implications of “Most-Favoured Nation” Treatment

Investors from US and Mexico and other third-party countries will benefit from the Canada-EU trade deal when it comes to investing in Canada, according to a report by the C.D. Howe Institute.

C.D. Howe Institute Thu, 12/19/2013

Are Workers More Vulnerable in Tradable Industries?

This report assesses whether the probability of displacement is higher and income losses after displacement are greater for workers in tradable services and manufacturing than in non-tradable service sectors.

Swedish Agency for Growth Policy AnalysisSun, 12/01/2013

Competitiveness, Innovation and Productivity: Clearing Up The Confusion

ITIF explains the difference between competitiveness, innovation and productivity in this policy memo.

Information Technology and Innovation FoundationMon, 08/19/2013

Outsourcing and Offshoring of R&D in Global Value Chains

This report recognizes that Swedish companies locate almost half of their R&D activity outside of Sweden; through case studies of Swedish enterprises' R&D activities in India, it draws lessons of how this impacts corporate competitiveness and innovation policy.

Swedish Agency for Growth Policy AnalysisThu, 08/01/2013

Global Innovation Policy Index

Benchmarking the effectiveness of the innovation policies of 55 countries - including virtually all EU, OECD, APEC and BRIC economies - and provides a framework for making effective policies.

Information Technology and Innovation FoundationTue, 03/12/2013

Factor Income Taxation, Growth, and Investment Specific Technological Change

This ICRIER report seeks to explain why advanced economies with roughly identical growth rates have widely varying factor income tax rates. To do so, it constructs a tractable endogenous growth model with production externalities in which the public capital stock augments investment specific technological change.

ICRIERFri, 03/01/2013

Global Value Chains and International Competitiveness

With comparative advantage now determined more in terms of activities or business functions than industries, this report attempts to identify, map, and analyze comparative advantages within the trade and investment areas in industries, products, and activities, with a particular focus on the Swedish economy.

Swedish Agency for Growth Policy AnalysisSat, 12/01/2012

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