Measuring technological capabilities at the country level: A survey and a menu for choice

By Daniele Archibugi, Alberto Coco. 2005

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management

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Spatial Heterogeneity in Knowledge, Innovation, and Economic Growth Nexus: Conceptual Reflections and Empirical Evidence (2014, background): “…1986), absorptive capacity (Cohen and Levinthal, 1990), technological capabilities (Kim, 1980, 1997), and more recently rejuvenated, among many others, in Archibugi and Coco (2005); Fagerberg, Shrolec, and Knell (2007); Fagerberg and Srholec (2008); and Fagerberg, Srholec; and Verspagen (2010).”
Regional collaborations and indigenous innovation capabilities in China: A multivariate method for the analysis of regional innovation systems (2015, background): “20 Despite some attempts to create aggregate indicators of technological capabilities at country level [86], many organisations(2) tried to identify appropriate measurements of innovation capability [87-90].”
A multilevel analysis of innovation in developing countries (2008, neutral): “Indicators of USPTO patents, scientific articles, RD Archibugi, Coco, 2005; Fagerberg, Srholec, 2006; Fagerberg, et al., 2007).”
National innovation systems, capabilities and economic development (2008, methodology): “Concepts such as “social capability” (Ohkawa and Rosovsky, 1974; Abramovitz, 1986) “absorptive capacity” (Cohen and Levintal, 1990), “technological capability” (Kim, 1997), “innovation system” (Lundvall, 1992; Nelson, 1993; Edquist, 1997) and “innovative capacity” (Furman et al., 2002), have been su”
Radical Innovation across Nations: The Preeminence of Corporate Culture (2009, background): “The primary question this article addresses is what explains these differences.”
Innovation and Economic Development (2009, methodology): “The most widely used approach to construct composite variables is to select relevant indicators and weigh them together using predetermined (usually equal) weights (Archibugi and Coco, 2005).”
The technological capabilities of nations: the state of the art of synthetic indicators (2009, methodology): “With respect to previous studies [20], this study aims at broadening the spectrum of the analysis using up-to-date data.”
Human capital, R&D, trade, and long-run productivity. Testing the technological absorption hypothesis for the Portuguese economy, 1960–2001 (2010, background): “It provides a reliable indicator or both the acquisition of technology (Archibugi and Cocoa, 2005) nd the value of the intellectual property rights used (Athreye and antwell, 2007).”
The technology clubs: the distribution of knowledge across nations (2008, methodology): “…to standardize the indicators adopts the “distance from the best and the worst performers” method of standardization, which is the same used for the indicators composing the Technology Achievement Index (UNDP, 2001; Desai et al., 2002) and the ArCo Technology Index (Archibugi and Coco, 2004a,b).”