This paper documents the influence of diaspora networks of high-skilled individuals - i.e., inventors - on … associated with a 1.5 to 2.2 percent increase in international patent collaborations. The evidence found survives the inclusion … stronger for inventor-to-inventor collaborations - co-inventorship - than for applicant-to-inventor co-patents ? R&D offshoring …

. Invention, part of the innovation process, is acknowledged as one of the driving forces behind economic growth, and patent … national patent statistics and measures of institutional quality. As a result of our research, the effect of the "threshold of … development and attain a general institutional climate conducive to inventive activity, the number of patent applications begins …