The Economics of High-Technology Competition and Cooperation in Global Markets

Technological progress is an important driving force for economic growth and employment. In the more recent past, the ongoing globalisation of markets has greatly changed the conditions of technological competition among enterprises and states.
The book presents the papers of an international conference organized by the HWWA Institute of Economic Research, Hamburg, in cooperation with the National Research Council, Washington, and the Kiel Institute for World Economics on the theory and empirical evidence of high-technology competition and cooperation in global markets. In nine major articles and 14 short papers economists and business experts from North America, Europe, and Japan analyze and discuss the interdependence between growth and technological development in open economies, international business strategies in high-tech markets and problems of as well as approaches to national technology policies in the age of globalisation.
The book should be of interest to all those who are concerned with problems of technological development, international technology competition and technology policy from a scientific or public policy perspective.