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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w25862 |
来源ID | Working Paper 25862 |
International Business Travel and Technology Sourcing | |
Nune Hovhannisyan; Wolfgang Keller | |
发表日期 | 2019-05-20 |
出版年 | 2019 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | Access to new foreign technology is often central to countries’ development strategies. However, we know very little about the quantitative impact of technology sourcing. In this paper, we study the role of outward international business travel for technology sourcing and innovation by examining whether patenting in European regions is affected by the number of business travelers heading to the United States. Using European regional patent data for the years 1996 to 2010 from Eurostat and information on incoming business travelers from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Survey of International Air Travelers, we find that controlling for a region’s R&D spending and size, innovation is increasing in the number of business travelers of the region to the United States. Technology sourcing through in-person business travel is not only statistically but economically significant, accounting, for example, for 20% of the higher patenting in Germany’s Greater Stuttgart area, compared to Portugal’s Algarve region. |
主题 | International Economics ; International Factor Mobility ; Development and Growth ; Innovation and R& ; D |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w25862 |
来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/583535 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Nune Hovhannisyan,Wolfgang Keller. International Business Travel and Technology Sourcing. 2019. |
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