Avoiding the middle income trap: indigenous innovative effort vs foreign innovative effort

Byeongwoo Kang (), Kaoru Nabeshima and Cheng Fang-Ting

No 509, IDE Discussion Papers from Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization(JETRO)

Abstract: This paper investigates how innovation potential of a country contributes to avoid or escape the middle income trap. We measure innovation potentials of 77 countries from 1975 to 2010 from patent data. Then, we test whether indigenous innovative efforts or foreign ones help avoid and escape middle income traps

Keywords: Developing countries; Developed countries; Economic growth; Technological innovations; Middle income trap; Innovation; Duration model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C41 O30 O40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-03-01
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ino
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (5)

Published in IDE Discussion Paper = IDE Discussion Paper, No. 509. 2015-03-01

Downloads: (external link)
https://ir.ide.go.jp/record/37668/files/IDP000509_001.pdf First version, 2015 (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:jet:dpaper:dpaper509

Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from
Publication Office, IDE 3-2-2 Wakaba, Mihama-ku, Chiba-shi, Chiba 261-8545 JAPAN
http://www.ide.go.jp/English/Publish/Order

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in IDE Discussion Papers from Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization(JETRO) Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Michitaka Imamitsu ().