Australian Innovative Activity and Offshore Technology 1904 – 2016

Grant Fleming, Frank Liu, David Merrett and Simon Ville

No 9, CEH Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic History, Research School of Economics, Australian National University

Abstract: Australia has been a large consumer of patented offshore technology, which has led several authors to criticise the domestic innovation system. We deploy a new dataset of 1.4 million patent applications across a century to evaluate empirically this perspective. Our results reveal that Australians held an important though diminishing share of patents and indicate the shifting contribution among other nations. Using revealed technology advantage, we show that local patenting focussed on areas key to the growth of the Australian economy.

Keywords: Innovation System; Patents; Revealed Technological Advantage; Australia; Natural Resources (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: N77 O13 O31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022-08
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