Inventor Diasporas and the Internalionalization of Technology

Ernest Miguelez

No 1425, RFBerlin Discussion Paper Series from Rockwool Foundation Berlin (RF Berlin)

Abstract: This paper documents the influence of diaspora networks of highly-skilled individuals – i.e., 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.

Keywords: inventors; diaspora networks; international collaborations; R&D offshoring; PCT patents (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C8 J61 O31 O33 R0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-06
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