A Schumpeter-Inspired Approach to the Construction of R&D Capital Stocks

Jürgen Bitzer and Andreas Stephan

No 300, Discussion Papers of DIW Berlin from DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research

Abstract: A new method for constructing R&D capital stocks is proposed. Following Schumpeter, the development of R&D capital stocks is modelled as a process of creative destruction. Newly generated knowledge is assumed not only to add to the existing R&D capital stocks but also, by displacing old knowledge, to destroy part of that capital. This is in stark contrast to the perpetual inventory method, which postulates a constant rate of depreciation. We compare both methods by estimating the impact of R&D and spillovers on output in OECD countries, and find that the new approach leads to more sensible and robust results.

Keywords: R&D capital stocks; knowledge spillovers; creative destruction (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C82 D62 O31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 19 p.
Date: 2002
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