Trade in Ideas: Patenting and Productivity in the OECD

Jonathan Eaton and Samuel Kortum

No 5049, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: We develop and estimate a model of technological innovation and its contribution to growth at home and abroad. International patents indicate where innovations come from and where they are used. Countries grow at a common steady-state rate. A country's relative productivity depends upon its capacity to absorb technology. We estimate that, except for the United States, OECD countries derive almost all of their productivity growth from abroad.

JEL-codes: F43 O14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1995-03
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Published as Journal of International Economics, vol. 40, no. 3/4, May 1996, pp. 251-278

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