TY - JOUR
T1 - Trade patterns and international technology spillovers
T2 - evidence from patent citations
AU - Jinji, Naoto
AU - Zhang, Xingyuan
AU - Haruna, Shoji
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Lee Branstetter, Akira Hibiki, Shuichiro Nishioka, Nobuhito Suga, Yoichi Sugita, Roberto Venturini, an anonymous referee, and seminar and conference participants at Hokkaido University, Kyoto University, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Otaru University of Commerce, University of Pittsburgh, Yokohama National University, APTS, Midwest International Economics, Korea International Economic Association Meeting, and EARIE 2013 for their helpful comments and suggestions on earlier versions of the paper. The authors are solely responsible for any remaining errors. Financial support from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science under the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) Nos. 19330052 and 23330081, and the Murata Science Foundation is gratefully acknowledged.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2015/11/1
Y1 - 2015/11/1
N2 - In this paper, we empirically examine the relationship between bilateral trade patterns and international technology spillovers for a sample of 55 countries during 1995–2006. Technology spillovers are measured by using patent citation data taken from the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The main contribution of this paper is to provide new evidence that the size of technology spillovers significantly varies according to bilateral trade patterns. In particular, horizontal intra-industry trade is associated with larger technology spillovers than vertical intra-industry trade, and the size of technology spillovers is smallest when the trade pattern is inter-industry trade. Given the fact that trade between technologically advanced countries has a higher share of horizontal intra-industry trade than trade between other combinations of countries, our findings suggest that trade may enlarge, rather than narrow, the technology gap between technologically advanced and less-advanced countries.
AB - In this paper, we empirically examine the relationship between bilateral trade patterns and international technology spillovers for a sample of 55 countries during 1995–2006. Technology spillovers are measured by using patent citation data taken from the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The main contribution of this paper is to provide new evidence that the size of technology spillovers significantly varies according to bilateral trade patterns. In particular, horizontal intra-industry trade is associated with larger technology spillovers than vertical intra-industry trade, and the size of technology spillovers is smallest when the trade pattern is inter-industry trade. Given the fact that trade between technologically advanced countries has a higher share of horizontal intra-industry trade than trade between other combinations of countries, our findings suggest that trade may enlarge, rather than narrow, the technology gap between technologically advanced and less-advanced countries.
KW - Intra-industry trade
KW - Patent citations
KW - Technology spillovers
KW - Trade patterns
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U2 - 10.1007/s10290-015-0223-z
DO - 10.1007/s10290-015-0223-z
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84944353362
SN - 1610-2878
VL - 151
SP - 635
EP - 658
JO - Review of World Economics
JF - Review of World Economics
IS - 4
ER -