We build a stylized model that captures the relationships between cross-border patenting, globalization, and … development. Our theory delivers a gravity equation for cross-border patents. To test the model's predictions, we compile a new … dataset that tracks patents within and between countries and industries, for 1980-2019. The econometric analysis reveals a …

Using a new database of all patents issues in Mexico between 1870 and 1911, this paper explores the impact of the vast … wave of technology imports into Mexico during the nineteenth century period of globalization. Historians have established …