Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between the patenting movement and economic growth by analyzing development states and raising possible questions of high‐tech industries in order to provide lessons for policy makers. Design/methodology/approach – A model...

This paper studies the growth dynamics of a developing country under migration. Assuming that human capital formation is subject to a strong enough, positive intertemporal externality, the prospect of migration will increase growth in the home country in the long run. If the external effect is...