Inventor diasporas and the internationalization of technology

Ernest Miguelez

No 7619, Policy Research Working Paper Series from The World Bank

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 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: E-Business; ICT Policy and Strategies; Technology Industry; Real&Intellectual Property Law; Population Policies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-04-04
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