International technology transfer between China and the rest of the world

Giuditta De Prato and Daniel Nepelski

No JRC79397, JRC Research Reports from Joint Research Centre

Abstract: We study the patterns and drivers of international technology transfer to and from China and the rest of the world. Our analysis makes use of patent-based measures of cross-border ownership of inventions. To quantify these technology flows, we a patent database providing a worldwide coverage of patents. We use a gravity model to explain the drivers of the international technology transfer. Although China exhibits a large deficit in international technology transfer, the flow of technology from abroad to China intensifies as its absorptive capacity grows. Excluding Taiwan, the US and China relationship dominates the technology transfer between China and the rest of the world. This is even more emphasised by the relatively weak position of Japan and other Asian countries in the process of technology exchange with China. This is result is not affected by the fact that the US acts mainly as an acquirer of Chinese technology.

Keywords: international technology transfer; cross-border ownership of inventions; patent analysis; China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D8 F23 O14 O30 O57 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 23 pages
Date: 2012-07, Revised 2012-11
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