August 2002
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Research Policy

The Determinants of National Innovative Capacity

By: Jeffrey L. Furman, Michael E. Porter and Scott Stern

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Abstract

Motivated by differences in innovation intensity across advanced economies, this paper presents an empirical examination of the determinants of country-level production of international patents. We introduce a novel framework based on the concept of national innovative capacity. National innovative capacity is the ability of a country to produce and commercialize a flow of innovative technology over the long term.

Keywords

Economics; Growth And Development

Citation

Furman, Jeffrey L., Michael E. Porter, and Scott Stern. "The Determinants of National Innovative Capacity." Research Policy 31, no. 6 (August 2002): 899–933.