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The ‘inventor balance’ and the functional specialization in global inventive activities
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dc.contributor.author | Picci, Lucio | |
dc.contributor.author | Savorelli, Luca | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-09-13T23:35:34Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-09-13T23:35:34Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018-01 | |
dc.identifier | 249386974 | |
dc.identifier | 058147ec-18bb-4a83-93ee-17bc75133226 | |
dc.identifier | 85015228927 | |
dc.identifier | 000418513700003 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Picci , L & Savorelli , L 2018 , ' The ‘inventor balance’ and the functional specialization in global inventive activities ' , Economics of Innovation and New Technology , vol. 27 , no. 1 , pp. 39-61 . https://doi.org/10.1080/10438599.2017.1293598 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 1043-8599 | |
dc.identifier.other | RIS: urn:5E6C685A1BA39ED8E12761854FD50D1A | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10023/16026 | |
dc.description.abstract | Inventors and organizational assets are inputs of inventive activities which are often provided at a global scale, where countries might specialize in the provision of one or the other type of inputs. We introduce a new patent-based metric, the 'inventor balance', to quantify this type of functional specialization, which we discover to be considerable, and we propose a conceptual framework to explain it. We observe a progressive 'decoupling' of national sub-systems providing respectively inventors and organizational assets. Moreover, we find that countries with a high level of innovativeness relative to their economic development, high technological specialization, and strong individualistic cultural traits, contribute relatively more inventors than organizations to the global production of inventions. | |
dc.format.extent | 23 | |
dc.format.extent | 408093 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Economics of Innovation and New Technology | en |
dc.subject | Patents | en |
dc.subject | Inventor balance | en |
dc.subject | Inventor criterion | en |
dc.subject | Applicant criterion | en |
dc.subject | Internationalization of R&D | en |
dc.subject | Specialization | en |
dc.subject | Technology gaps | en |
dc.subject | HB Economic Theory | en |
dc.subject | T Technology | en |
dc.subject | 3rd-DAS | en |
dc.subject | SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth | en |
dc.subject.lcc | HB | en |
dc.subject.lcc | T | en |
dc.title | The ‘inventor balance’ and the functional specialization in global inventive activities | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.contributor.institution | University of St Andrews. School of Economics and Finance | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/10438599.2017.1293598 | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
dc.date.embargoedUntil | 2018-09-14 |
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