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Inventor diasporas and the internationalization of technology
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World Bank Economic Review. 2018, vol. 32, n° 1, p. 41-63
English Abstract
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 ...Read more >
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 and 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.Read less <
English Keywords
Skilled Labor
Diaspora
Technology Adoption
Development Economics
Globalization