Inventor Diasporas and the Internationalization of Technology

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Determinants of International Research Collaboration: Evidence from International Co‐Inventions in Asia and Major OECD Countries

“…Previous literature suggests that more trade relations are associated with more ICIs (Montobbio & Sterzi, ; Miguélez, ), although the relationship is not so strong (Picci, finds no significant relationships for investments). In this paper, we examine how the direction of trade may matter, which may shed light on these empirical findings.…”

“…To complement this, we also estimate a gravity model centering on the USA and Great Britain to examine how the characteristics of the bilateral relationship, such as distance and language differences, and the trade and investment relationships affect ICIs between the two countries. There is some important recent research analyzing this same issue using the gravity model (Picci, ; Montobbio & Sterzi, ; Miguélez, ). Our empirical work, however, is importantly distinct for the following reasons.…”

Diasporas and Economic Development: A Review of the Evidence and Policy

“…Breschi et al (2017) find consistent results when focusing on US-based foreign inventors from ten different countries in Asia and Europe: patents filed by foreign inventors are disproportionately cited by inventors residing in their country of origin. Furthermore, in a multi-country setting, there is robust evidence showing that diasporas of migrant inventors result in large knowledge flows to countries of origin of these migrants through patent collaborations (Miguélez, 2018) and citations (Miguelez and Noumedem Temgoua, 2019).…”

Diaspora Externalities

“…Migration, especially of scientists and inventors, can affect the stock of technological knowledge available in developing countries negatively through direct depletion coming from brain drain, quite obviously, but also positively, by creating opportunities for co-inventorship and R&D outsourcing as well as by favoring the circulation and diffusion of knowledge. Studies using information on inventors' ethnicities (Kerr, 2008;Breschi and Lissoni, 2009;Agrawal et al, 2011;Kerr and Kerr, 2018) or on actual origins (Miguélez, 2018) have uncovered evidence of both. For example, Miguélez (2018) investigates the effect of diaspora inventors networks on two outcomes of interest from the perspective of developing countries: collaborative patents between home and host countries (i.e., co-inventorship), and R&D offshoring (i.e., collaborations between applicants in developed countries and inventors in developing countries).…”