Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/228147 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
LEM Working Paper Series No. 2020/08
Publisher: 
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Pisa
Abstract: 
This paper investigates the extent to which international trade hinges onpatents. We analyze the export and patenting activities of the universe of French exporting firms over the period 2002-2011. The noticeable feature of our study is that we observe export and patenting activities worldwide and at the product level. We exploit how heterogeneity of patent coverageacross (and within) product-country relates to exports. We find a patent premium of at least 10 percent, which is mainly associated with a quantity effect. A modest price effect emerges in specific sectors, notably pharmaceuticals. This work discusses the role of industrial policies within an evolutionary view of innovation and learning as drivers of economic development. Building on the notions of technological paradigms and trajectories, it links the processes of catching-up with the dynamics of capability accumulation within and across firms. In turn such processes are embedded in broader national systems of innovation wherein industrial policies play a pivotal role.
Subjects: 
Technological paradigms
Catching up
Theory of production
Absolute and Comparative Advantages
National systems of innovation
Industrial Policies
Economic Evolution and Development
JEL: 
O14
O30
O53
O54
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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