Inventor Diasporas and the Internationalization of Technology
研究了高技能发明人侨民网络如何促进发达国家与发展中国家之间的跨国技术合作，发现侨民对国际共同专利有显著正向影响，但效果随合作正式程度降低，且中国和印度侨民并非主导因素。
This paper documents the influence of diaspora networks of highly-skilled individuals-that is, inventors-on international technological collaborations. Using gravity models, it studies the determinants of the internationalization of inventive activity between a group of industrialized countries and a sample of developing and emerging economies. The paper examines the influence exerted by skilled diasporas in fostering cross-country co-inventorship as well as R&D offshoring. The study finds a strong and robust relationship between inventor diasporas and different forms of international co-patenting. However, the effect decreases with the level of formality of the interactions. Interestingly, some of the most successful diasporas recently documented-namely, Chinese and Indian ones-do not govern the results.