International spillovers and absorptive capacity: A cross-country cross-sector analysis based on patents and citations

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Mancusi, Maria Luisa
• 署名单位: Bocconi University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-1996
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jinteco.2008.06.007
• 发表日期: 2008
• 页码: 155-165
• 关键词: R&D spillovers; absorptive capacity; Knowledge production function; patents; citations

摘要

This paper brings together the issues of knowledge spillovers and absorptive capacity, by assessing the role of prior R&D experience in enhancing a country's ability to understand and improve upon external knowledge. International spillovers innovative productivity in laggard countries, while technological leaders are a source rather than a destination of knowledge flows. Quantitative estimates of the effect of absorptive capacity on innovative performance, through knowledge spillovers, show that absorptive capacity increases the elasticity of a laggard country's innovation to international spillovers, while its marginal effect is negligible for countries at the technological frontier. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.