alice Li
Heinz College
School of Public Policy and Management
Carnegie Mellon University
3013 Hamburg Hall
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
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Institutional Affiliation: Carnegie Mellon University
NBER Working Papers and Publications
| July 2014 | The Rise of International Coinvention
with Lee Branstetter, Francisco Veloso
in The Changing Frontier: Rethinking Science and Innovation Policy, Adam B. Jaffe and Benjamin F. Jones, editors
The rapid rise of India and China as innovating nations seems to contradict conventional views of the economic growth and development process. India and China are still at the early stages of development, yet advanced nations are granting rapidly growing numbers of patents to inventors based in these countries. Our analysis of U.S. patents shows that a majority of these patents are granted to local inventor teams working for foreign multinationals. An important fraction of these patents incorporate direct intellectual inputs from researchers outside India or China, a trend that we characterize as "international co-invention." As such, the international patenting surge of India and China does not represent a challenge to traditional models of growth and development, so much as it represents... |
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