Technology diffusion

Updated October 2004. Thanks to Edmund Cannon and Bart Verspagen for their suggestions.

See the 1994 JEL article by Jan Fagerberg for more references, perhaps especially to the work of Abramovitz.

Introductory reading

Abramovitz, Moses (1986). Catching up, forging ahead and falling behind. Journal of Economic History, 46(2), June, 386-406.

Bernard, Andrew B. and Jones, Charles I. (1996). Technology and convergence. Economic Journal, 106, July, 1037-1044.

Fagerberg, Jan (1994). Technology and international differences in growth rates. Journal of Economic Literature, 32, September, 1147-1175.

Goodfriend, Marvin and McDermott, John (1998). Industrial development and the convergence question. American Economic Review, 88(5), 1277-1289.

Hausmann, Ricardo and Rodrik, Dani (2002). Economic development as self-discovery. NBER working paper no. 8952.

Further reading

Frantzen, Dirk (2002). Intersectoral and International R&D Knowledge Spillovers and Total Factor Productivity. Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 49(3).

Caselli, Francesco and Coleman, Wilbur John, II (2001). Cross-country technology diffusion: the case of computers. American Economic Review, May, 91(2), 328-35.

Cornwall, John (1976). Diffusion, convergence and Kaldor’s Law. Economic Journal, 86, June, 307-314.

Eaton, Jonathan and Kortum, Samuel (1996). Trade in ideas: patenting and productivity in the OECD. Journal of International Economics, May, 40(3-4), 251-78.

Eaton, Jonathan and Kortum, Samuel (1996). Measuring technology diffusion and the international sources of growth. Eastern Economic Journal, Fall, 22(4), 401-10.

Eaton, Jonathan and Kortum, Samuel (1997). Engines of growth: domestic and foreign sources of innovation. Japan and the World Economy, 9(2), 235-259.

Eaton, Jonathan and Kortum, Samuel (1999). International technology diffusion: theory and measurement. International Economic Review, August, 40(3), 537-70.

Eaton, Jonathan and Kortum, Samuel (2001). Technology, trade, and growth: a unified framework. European Economic Review, May, 45(4-6), 742-55.

Eaton, Jonathan and Kortum, Samuel (2001). Trade in capital goods. European Economic Review, June, 45(7), 1195-1235.

Fagerberg, Jan (1987). A technology gap approach to why growth rates differ. Research Policy, 16, August, 87-99.

Gerschenkron, Alexander (1962). Economic backwardness in historical perspective. Belknap Press, Cambridge, MA.

Gomulka, Stanislaw (1971). Inventive activity, diffusion, and the stages of economic growth. Institute of Economics, Aarhus.

Pavitt, Keith and Soete, Luc G. (1982). International differences in economic growth and the international location of innovation. in Herbert Giersch (ed.) Emerging technologies: consequences for economic growth, structural change, and employment. JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck), Tubingen.

Singer, Hans W. and Reynolds, Lyn (1975). Technological backwardness and productivity growth. Economic Journal, 85, December, 873-876.

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