TY  - JOUR
AU  - Eaton,Jonathan
AU  - Kortum,Samuel
TI  - Trade in Ideas: Patenting and Productivity in the OECD
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 5049
PY  - 1997
Y2  - May 1997
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w5049
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w5049.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Jonathan Eaton
Department of Economics
Penn State University
608 Kern Graduate Building
University Park, PA 16802-3306
Tel: (814) 865 - 8871
Fax: (814) 863 - 4775
E-Mail: jxe22@psu.edu

Samuel S. Kortum
Department of Economics
Yale University
P.O. Box 208264
New Haven, CT 06520
Tel: 773/702-8251
Fax: 773/702-8490
E-Mail: kortum@uchicago.edu
AB  - 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.
ER  -