Diasporas and Technology Transfer
By Devesh Kapur. 2001
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Subfields: Demography, Sociology and Political Science
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- Measuring the Technology Achievement of Nations and the Capacity to Participate in the Network Age (2002, background): “A global labour market is in the making in skill-intensive professions, and the diasporas strengthen the social ties in economic networks as they invest at home, but also facilitate contacts for market access (Kapur, 2001).”
- Familiarity Breeds Investment: Diaspora Networks and International Investment (2010, background): “Kapur (2001), in his study of the Indian community residing in the United States, explains how the mere presence of that community enhances investment opportunities in India: “Companies like Yahoo, Hewlett Packard and General Electric have opened R&D centers in India largely because of the confidenc”
- Roepke Lecture in Economic Geography Venture Capital in the “Periphery”: The New Argonauts, Global Search, and Local Institution Building (2008, background): “Regional Planning University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-1850 anno@ischool.berkeley.edu”
- Investing in Peace: The Motivational Dynamics of Diaspora Investment in Post-Conflict Economies (2009, background): “Diaspora investors also can serve as reputational intermediaries for domestic firms in foreign markets (Kapur, 2001).”
- Ethnic Scientific Communities and International Technology Diffusion (2007, unknown): “The ethnic patenting data are then joined with foreign output metrics in Section 4 to evaluate (6) directly.”
- Global Collaborative Patents (2018, unknown): “(2002) and Saxenian (2006) emphasise how global ethnic connections facilitate fragmented production, modular development and rapid product cycles; and Kerr (2008) stresses the role of ethnic innovators in settings where tacit knowledge is deeply important as opposed to codified information.”