Trade in Ideas: Patenting and Productivity in the OECD
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NBER Working Paper No. 5049 (Also Reprint No. r2119)
Issued in May 1997
NBER Program(s): EFG ITI PR
We develop and estimate a model of technological innovation and its contribution to growth at home and abroad. International patents indicate where innovations come from and where they are used. Countries grow at a common steady-state rate. A country's relative productivity depends upon its capacity to absorb technology. We estimate that, except for the United States, OECD countries derive almost all of their productivity growth from abroad.
Published: Journal of International Economics, vol. 40, no. 3/4, May 1996, pp. 251-278
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