Are international technology gaps growing or shrinking in the age of globalization?
Are international technology gaps growing or shrinking in the age of globalization?
This article examines changing international technology gaps over the recent period of globalization, 1972–2001, using a novel measure of technology. It evaluates each economy's technology level based on the goods it exports, considering each product's average productivity and relative quality level. The analysis reveals a growing disparity between the most- and least-sophisticated economies and a lack of intradistributional mobility. Results are consistent with a view of globalization in which emergent specialization patterns in advanced economies allow them to maintain and even extend their lead over technological latecomers, even as some developing economies are climbing up the ladder.
technology gaps, globalization, innovation, quality differentiation
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Kemeny, Thomas
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January 2011
Kemeny, Thomas
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Kemeny, Thomas
(2011)
Are international technology gaps growing or shrinking in the age of globalization?
Journal of Economic Geography, 11 (1), .
(doi:10.1093/jeg/lbp062).
Abstract
This article examines changing international technology gaps over the recent period of globalization, 1972–2001, using a novel measure of technology. It evaluates each economy's technology level based on the goods it exports, considering each product's average productivity and relative quality level. The analysis reveals a growing disparity between the most- and least-sophisticated economies and a lack of intradistributional mobility. Results are consistent with a view of globalization in which emergent specialization patterns in advanced economies allow them to maintain and even extend their lead over technological latecomers, even as some developing economies are climbing up the ladder.
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Published date: January 2011
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technology gaps, globalization, innovation, quality differentiation
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Economy, Society and Space
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/369530
ISSN: 1468-2702
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