Bian, Bo; Meier, Jean-Marie; Xu, Ting - 2021
We identify strong cross-border institutions as a driver for the globalization of in-novation. Using 67 million patents … from over 100 patent offices, we introduce novel measures of innovation diffusion and collaboration. Exploiting staggered … result in techno-logical convergence. The effects are particularly strong for process innovation, and for countries that are …