Patenting abroad: Evidence from OECD countries

Fragiskos Archontakis and Nikos Varsakelis ()

Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2017, vol. 116, issue C, 62-69

Abstract: The hypothesis that when the imitation risk is supported from exports then the decision to patent abroad is intensified is coming under scrutiny in the present paper, using data from 28 OECD countries. We investigate this issue, via two routes: the full sample for all source countries and a group-based. Higher exports increase the impact of imitation risk in the destination country on patenting abroad. The impact is positively correlated with the source country's size. Business cycle impact is statistically significant and positive but the counter intuitive sign of the IPR regime in the destination country demands further investigation. Finally, the distance variable is statistically significant and negative, verifying gravity model.

Keywords: International patenting; Exports; Extended gravity equation; OECD countries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O33 O34 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (4)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004016251630645X
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

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:eee:tefoso:v:116:y:2017:i:c:p:62-69

DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2016.07.044

Access Statistics for this article

Technological Forecasting and Social Change is currently edited by Fred Phillips

More articles in Technological Forecasting and Social Change from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().