On 'Indirect' Trade-Related R&D Spillovers
By Olivier Lumenga-Neso, Marcelo Olarreaga, Maurice Schiff. 2005
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An influential literature argues that trade promotes knowledge flows and technology transmission between trading partners. This literature focuses on ‘direct’ R&D spillovers which are related to the levels of R&D produced by the trading partners. In this paper we argue that ‘indirect’ trade-related R&D spillovers also take place between countries, even if they do not trade with each other. These ‘indirect’ spillovers are associated with available rather than with produced levels of R&D. Our empirical results suggest that these ‘indirect’ trade-related spillovers are at least as important as the ‘direct’ ones, and strengthen the view that trade does matter for the international transmission of R&D. They also suggest that, due to the existence of these ‘indirect’ effects, bilateral trade patterns are relatively less important as determinants of the level of foreign R&D spillovers acquired through trade.
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- Trade Liberalisation and Economic Performance: An Overview (2004, unknown): “Pritchett (2000) argues that these offer a more promising approach to empirical growth research than do cross-country regressions, and Srinivasan and Bhagwati (2001) chide the economics profession for forgetting these in their enthusiasm for the latter.”
- Convergence and polarization in global income levels: a review of recent results on the role of international technology diffusion (2003, background): “Some results, for instance by Lumenga-Neso et al. (2001), indicate that there might be much to be learned from future work that studies the full dynamics of trade and technology diffusion instead of only the long-run stationary relationships.”
- Does foreign direct investment transfer technology across borders? New evidence ☆ (2008, background): “3 A similar point is made by Lumenga-Neso et al. (2005) regarding trade.”
- Openness and Technological Innovations in Developing Countries: Evidence from Firm-Level Surveys (2006, unknown): “4 Finally, there is also some evidence that imports of intermediate inputs are positively correlated with firm and aggregate productivity (Kasahara and Rodrigue, 2005; Coe et al., 1997; Lumenga-Neso et al., 2005).”
- The modern drivers of productivity (2015, methodology): “This argument has been confirmed by recent works using more sophisticated, trade-related weights (Lumenga-Neso et al., 2005), different measures of knowledge capital (Bottazzi and Peri, 2007; Madsen, 2007, and 2008), or alternative mechanism of knowledge propagation (Lee, 2006 and Mendi, 2007).”