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 activity between a group of industrialized countries and...

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Main Author:	Miguelez, Ernest
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2019
Subjects:	IMMIGRANTS DIASPORA NETWORKS SKILLED LABOR BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT PRODUCTIVITY TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER INVENTION INVENTORS
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32164

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spelling	okr-10986-321642021-05-25T10:54:42Z Inventor Diasporas and the Internationalization of Technology Miguelez, Ernest IMMIGRANTS DIASPORA NETWORKS SKILLED LABOR BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT PRODUCTIVITY TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER INVENTION INVENTORS 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. 2019-08-05T16:59:48Z 2019-08-05T16:59:48Z 2018-02-01 Journal Article World Bank Economic Review 1564-698X http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32164 CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank Publications & Research :: Journal Article Publications & Research
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topic	IMMIGRANTS DIASPORA NETWORKS SKILLED LABOR BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT PRODUCTIVITY TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER INVENTION INVENTORS
spellingShingle	IMMIGRANTS DIASPORA NETWORKS SKILLED LABOR BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT PRODUCTIVITY TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER INVENTION INVENTORS Miguelez, Ernest Inventor Diasporas and the Internationalization of Technology
description	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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author	Miguelez, Ernest
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title	Inventor Diasporas and the Internationalization of Technology
title_short	Inventor Diasporas and the Internationalization of Technology
title_full	Inventor Diasporas and the Internationalization of Technology
title_fullStr	Inventor Diasporas and the Internationalization of Technology
title_full_unstemmed	Inventor Diasporas and the Internationalization of Technology
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publisher	Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
publishDate	2019
url	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32164
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Inventor Diasporas and the Internationalization of Technology

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