Inventor Diasporas and the Internationalization of Technology
This paper documents the influence of diaspora networks of highly-skilled individuals -- that is, inventors -- on international technological collaborations. Using gravity models, it studies the determinants of the internationalization of inventive...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2016
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/04/26172212/inventor-diasporas-internationalization-technology http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24162 |
| Summary: | This paper documents the influence of
diaspora networks of highly-skilled individuals -- that is,
inventors -- on international technological collaborations.
Using gravity models, it studies the determinants of the
internationalization of inventive activity between a group
of industrialized countries and a sample of developing and
emerging economies. The paper examines the influence exerted
by skilled diasporas in fostering cross-country
co-inventorship as well as R&D offshoring. The study
finds a strong and robust relationship between inventor
diasporas and different forms of international co-patenting.
However, the effect decreases with the level of formality of
the interactions. Interestingly, some of the most successful
diasporas recently documented -- namely, Chinese and Indian
ones -- do not govern the results. |
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