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    The technology clubs: the distribution of knowledge across nations

    Castellacci, F. and Archibugi, Daniele (2008) The technology clubs: the distribution of knowledge across nations. Research Policy 37 (10), pp. 1659-1673. ISSN 0048-7333.

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    Abstract

    The convergence clubs literature in applied growth theory suggests that countries that differ in terms of structural characteristics and initial conditions tend to experience diverging growth performances. What is the role of technological knowledge for the formation of clubs? The paper investigates this unexplored question by carrying out an empirical study of the cross-country distribution of knowledge in a large sample of developed and developing economies in the 1990s. The results indicate the existence of three technology clubs characterized by markedly different levels of development. The clubs also differ with respect to the dynamics of their capabilities over the decade, as the most advanced group and the intermediate one are found to be much more dynamic than the large cluster of less developed economies.

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    Item Type: Article
    Keyword(s) / Subject(s): National systems, knowledge creation and dissemination, convergence clubs, polarization
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Business and Law > Birkbeck Business School
    Research Centres and Institutes: Innovation Management Research, Birkbeck Centre for
    Depositing User: Administrator
    Date Deposited: 26 Jan 2011 15:16
    Last Modified: 02 Aug 2023 16:51
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/2012

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