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Purpose: This paper aims to examine whether emigration of high-skilled labor creates a positive effect in the home country by generating multi-country joint patent relationships between home and destination country-pairs. Design/methodology/approach: A panel of data that uniquely captures the country of origin of patent applicants is used to assess if and how high-skilled emigration contributes to the prevalence of multi-country joint patents in a country. The analysis is conducted both in aggregate and across sub-samples based on the per capita income level of the home country. Finally, the role of absorptive capacity as a control variable is robustly considered. Findings: Results suggest that emigration of high-skilled labor positively impacts the prevalence of multi-country joint patent ownership when emigration originates from middle- and high-income countries. Support for such “brain gain” via knowledge sharing in innovation is absent when high-skilled labor emigrates from low-income countries. Originality/value: The analysis highlights a specific avenue by which the home country benefits from high-skilled emigration. It also provides comparative analysis across home countries of different income levels, which can provide insight into the external validity of papers using high-income country samples of innovative performance when assessing knowledge spillovers.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 161-173 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| Journal | International Journal of Development Issues |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue number | 2 |
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| State | Published - 2017 |
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- Political Science and International Relations
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Innovative partnerships resulting from high-skilled emigration. / Briggs, Kristie.
In: International Journal of Development Issues, Vol. 16, No. 2, 2017, p. 161-173.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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AU - Briggs, Kristie
PY - 2017
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JO - International Journal of Development Issues
JF - International Journal of Development Issues
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