Technology clubs, technology gaps and growth trajectories

Castellacci, Fulvio (2008): Technology clubs, technology gaps and growth trajectories.

Abstract

This paper looks at the convergence clubs literature from a Schumpeterian perspective, and it follows the idea that cross-country differences in the ability to innovate and to imitate foreign technologies determine the existence of clustering, polarization and convergence clubs. The study investigates the characteristics of different technology clubs and the growth trajectories that they have followed over time. The cross-country empirical analysis first explores the existence of multiple regimes in the data by means of cluster analysis techniques. It then estimates a technology-gap growth equation in a dynamic panel model specification. The empirical results identify three distinct technology clubs, and show that these are characterized by remarkably different technological characteristics and growth behavior.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Growth and development; technological change; convergence clubs; polarization
• Subjects: O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth > O1 - Economic Development

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