North-South R&D Spillovers

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David T. Coe

International Monetary Fund (IMF); National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Elhanan Helpman

Harvard University - Department of Economics; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

Alexander W. Hoffmaister

International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Research Department

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Date Written: March 1995

Abstract

We examine the extent to which developing countries that do little, if any research and development themselves benefit from R&D that is performed in the industrial countries. By trading with an industrial country that has large 'stocks of knowledge' from its cumulative R&D activities, a developing country can boost its productivity by importing a larger variety of intermediate products and capital equipment embodying foreign knowledge, and by acquiring useful information that would otherwise be costly to obtain. Our empirical results, which are based on observations over the 1971-90 period for 77 developing countries, suggest that R&D spillovers from the industrial countries in the North to the developing countries in the South are substantial.

Suggested Citation

Coe, David T. and Helpman, Elhanan and Hoffmaister, Alexander W., North-South R&D Spillovers (March 1995). NBER Working Paper No. w5048, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=225827

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