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Title: | Technology Catching-up and the Role of Institutions |
Author: | Manca, Fabio |
Keywords: | Propietat intel·lectual Industrialització Política industrial Innovacions tecnològiques Intellectual property Industrialization Industrial policy Technological innovations |
Issue Date: | 2009 |
Publisher: | Universitat de Barcelona. Institut de Recerca en Economia Aplicada Regional i Pública |
Series/Report no: | [WP E-IR09/12] |
Abstract: | The aim of the paper is to investigate the role played by differences in Institutional Quality on the process of technology catch-up across countries. Empirical evidence shows how countries endowed with better institutions are those experiencing higher TFP growth rates, faster rates of technology adoption and hence being those more rapidly closing the gap with the frontier. Conversely, countries lacking some minimum institutional level are shown to diverge in the long run and not to catch-up. Some institutions, however, play an ambiguous role in the creation and adoption of technology. We find that the tightening of Intellectual Property Rights reduces the ability of followers to freely imitate technology slowing down their catchup rate. This negative effect is stronger the farther the countriesare found from the frontier. Other institutional categories such as openness to trade, instead, benefit both leaders and followers. |
Note: | Reproducció del document publicat a: http://www.ub.edu/irea/working_papers/2009/200912.pdf |
It is part of: | IREA – Working Papers, 2009, IR09/12 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/61425 |
ISSN: | 2014-1254 |
Appears in Collections: | Documents de treball (Institut de Recerca en Economia Aplicada Regional i Pública (IREA)) |
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