Inventor diasporas and the internationalization of technology

Ernest Miguelez

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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 and 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: Skilled Labor; Diaspora; Technology Adoption; Development Economics; Globalization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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Published in World Bank Economic Review, inPress, 32 (1), pp.41-63. ⟨10.1093/wber/lhw013⟩

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DOI: 10.1093/wber/lhw013

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