Drivers of national innovation in transition: Evidence from an eastern European panel

Krammer, Marius S.

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Drivers of national innovation in transition: Evidence from an eastern European panel

dc.contributor.author	Krammer, Marius S.
dc.contributor.corporatename	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
dc.date.accessioned	2010-10-08T20:19:17Z
dc.date.available	2010-10-08T20:19:17Z
dc.date.issued	2008-09
dc.description	Presented at the GLOBELICS 6th International Conference 2008 22-24 September, Mexico City, Mexico.	en_US
dc.description.abstract	Innovation plays a crucial role in determining today's economic growth patterns. But what enables some countries to innovate more than others? This study attempts to answer this question by analyzing in premiere a panel of sixteen Eastern European transition countries. It provides a detailed description of innovation by identifying regional differences in terms of historical heritage, technological specialization, commitments and main actors involved in this process, before and after the fall of communism. Secondly, it explores empirically the main drivers of their innovative output, proxied by patents, using a variety of econometric techniques. The results confirm the importance of R&D commitments from both public and private sources, the crucial role of universities and existing national knowledge base. Policy measures such as intellectual property rights protection or the business climate impact significantly the propensity to patent, while measures of transitional downturn and industrial restructuring have an important negative effect. Finally, globalization contributes to developing new innovations via inflows of foreign investment and trade.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1853/35141
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.publisher	Georgia Institute of Technology	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	GLOBELICS06. Drivers, sources and opportunities of innovation: Drivers of innovation in transition and emerging economies	en_US
dc.subject	National innovation systems	en_US
dc.subject	Technology	en_US
dc.subject	Transition economies	en_US
dc.subject	Patents	en_US
dc.subject	Research and development	en_US
dc.title	Drivers of national innovation in transition: Evidence from an eastern European panel	en_US
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dc.type.genre	Proceedings
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local.contributor.corporatename	School of Public Policy
local.contributor.corporatename	Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts
local.relation.ispartofseries	Globelics Conference
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