A New Indicator of Technological Capabilities for Developed and Developing Countries (ArCo)

Abstract

Zampaglione and two anonymous referees for detailed comments to previous versions. We also wish to thank a large number of national statistical experts who provided information, statistics, and comments to complete and/or corroborate the ArCo database.

Africa’s contribution to the worldwide research literature: New analytical perspectives, trends, and performance indicators

“…Secondly, interesting deviations are found between countries with similar levels of scientific and technological development (as measured by the ArCo index, ARCHIBUGI & COCO, 2004;. 12 Overall, a significant positive correlation is found between the ArCo-index of the African countries and their total publication output (Pearson correlation coefficient r=0.51).…”

A multilevel analysis of innovation in developing countries

“…Most of the existing literature has used exclusively macro data to gauge differences in innovation performance across countries (Furman, at al., 2002;Archibugi, Coco, 2004;Fagerberg, Srholec, 2006;Fagerberg, et al, 2007). Some studies using micro data has been recently performed for more than one country (Janz, et al, 2004;Mohnen and Röller, 2005;Mohnen, et al, 2006;Griffith, et al, 2006;Almeida and Fernandes, 2006), but the contextual factors have been at best represented only by a set of relevant country dummies without a serious attempt to actually explain the cross-country differences.…”

“…As measures of the national research infrastructure, we use a set of indicators that has been readily employed for this purpose in the literature (Furman, et al, 2002;Archibugi and Coco, 2004;Fagerberg, et al 2007 In addition, we consider two indicators equivalent to those that are used to capture technological capabilities at the firm level, which are expected to generate "network" externalities is the economy. ISO for which data has been derived directly from this international organization refers to the number of ISO 9000 certifications per capita, and is supposed to reflect quality of the local supply base (and also of the local business customers for that matter).…”

Technological-level evaluation using patent statistics: model and application in mobile communications

“…However, patents can be regarded as realizations of technologies, and patent statistics would therefore be sufficient for TLEs [17,18]. Moreover, several new measures of national technological capability using patent statistics have been developed recently, such as 'ArCo' [19] and the 'Patent Asset Index' [20].…”