PLENARY SESSION 1 GLOBALIZATION

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PLENARY SESSION 1GLOBALIZATION TECHNOLOGY
ABSORPTION

• Moderator Giuliano Conti
• Università Politecnica delle Marche

Knowledge Economy Forum VII Ancona, June 2008
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Technology creation and diffusion in a
globalizing world

• Developing countries
• mainly a problem of technology diffusion across
  and within countries
• Andrew Burns
• Giorgio Barba Navaretti

• Developed countries
• both a problem of creation and adoption of new
  technologies
• Alessandro Sterlacchini
• Salvatore Rossi

Evidence and policy implications