Does Patent Performance Promote Relative Technological Performance in Countries Bordering the Mediterranean?
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Does Patent Performance Promote Relative Technological Performance in Countries Bordering the Mediterranean? Hella Bani Baghdadi 1,2 & Sami Aouadi 1,2
Received: 19 November 2015 / Accepted: 9 September 2016 # Springer Science+Business Media New York 2016
Abstract In the present paper, we explore the relationship between patent performance and relative technological performance. A review of the theoretical and empirical literature shows that patenting is one of the major drivers for enhancing countries’ relative technological performance. Focusing on PCT patent applications for a sample of 16 Mediterranean countries over the period 1995 to 2010, we develop a dynamic model in which countries’ relative technological performance is depending on the capacity of innovative actors and knowledge infrastructure^ to exploit internal technological capabilities and to explore external sources of technological knowledge by patents (ambidexterity). The results of our estimations show that Mediterranean countries’ patent performances significantly explain their relative technological performances. Estimations provide also evidence that for this group of countries, relative technological performance depends on technological knowledge absorption capacities. Résumé Dans le présent papier, nous explorons la relation entre performance en matière de brevets et performance technologique relative. Une revue de la littérature théorique et empirique montre que l’activité de brevet est à l’origine de toute performance technologique relative. À partir des demandes de brevets PCT de 16 pays riverains du bassin de la Méditerranée de la période 1995–2010, nous avons développé un modèle dynamique où la performance technologique relative spécifique à un pays est dépendante de la capacité de ses acteurs innovants et de ses Binfrastructures de
* Hella Bani Baghdadi [email protected] Sami Aouadi [email protected]
1
Economic division, PSD2D research laboratory, Faculty of Economic Sciences and Management of Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia
2
Economic division, PSD2D research laboratory, Tunis El Manar University, Faculty of Economic Sciences and Management of Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia
J Knowl Econ
connaissances^ à exploiter les capacités technologiques internes et à explorer les sources externes de connaissances technologiques par les brevets (Ambidextrie). Les résultats de nos estimations ont montré que la performance en matière de brevets des pays riverains du basin de la Méditerranée explique significativement leurs performances technologiques relatives. Les estimations ont montré aussi que pour ce groupe de pays, la performance technologique relative est dépendente des capacités d’absorption des connaissances technologiques. Keywords Patent performance . Technological performance . Information and communication technologies . Biotechnologies . Nanotechnologies . Environment-related technologies . Technological knowledge absorption capacities JEL Classification O3 . O33 . O34 . F15
Introduction The expansion of the knowledge economy^ and the inte
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