Mancusi, Maria Luisa (2004) International spillovers and absorptive capacity: a cross-country, cross-sector analysis based on European patents and citations. EI (35). Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London, UK.
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Abstract
This paper provides an empirical assessment of the effect of national and international knowledge spillovers on innovation at a finely defined sectoral level for six major industrialised countries over the period 1981-1995. International spillovers are always found to be effective in increasing innovative productivity. The paper then uses self-citations to investigate the role of prior R&D experience in enhancing a country¿s ability to understand and improve upon external knowledge (absorptive capacity). The empirical results show that absorptive capacity increases the elasticity of a country¿s innovation to both national and international spillovers. The larger the gap of a country with the technological leaders, the weaker is this effect, but the larger is the country¿s potential to increase it.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Discussion Paper) |
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| Official URL: | http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk |
| Additional Information: | © 2004 Maria Luisa Mancusi |
| Divisions: | STICERD |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HF Commerce H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor |
| JEL classification: | O - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth > O3 - Technological Change; Research and Development > O31 - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives L - Industrial Organization > L6 - Industry Studies: Manufacturing > L60 - General F - International Economics > F1 - Trade > F12 - Models of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Jul 2008 15:47 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Sep 2025 04:00 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/6737 |
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