Catching up to the Technology Frontier: The Dichotomy Between Innovation and Imitation

Jakob Madsen, Md. Islam () and James Ang

CAMA Working Papers from Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis, Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University

Abstract: This research examines whether technology transfer, research intensity, educational attainment and the ability to absorb foreign technology help explain cross-country differences in productivity growth. Our data comprise a panel of 55 countries including 23 OECD and 32 developing economies over the period 1970-2004. The results show that TFP growth in both OECD and developing countries is positively affected by research intensity, distance to the frontier, research intensity-based absorptive capacity and educational attainment-based absorptive capacity. However, they reveal large differences between developed and developing countries.

JEL-codes: O30 O40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 55 pages
Date: 2009-09
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