Natural resources and innovation: Is the R&amp;D sector cursed too?

Kamguia, Brice; Keneck-Massil, Joseph; Nvuh-Njoya, Youssouf; Tadadjeu, Sosson

doi:10.1016/j.resourpol.2022.102725

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“…This result reaffirms those of Njangang et al (2021) who report that resource rents worsen the production of sophisticated products in Africa. These could be the result of the negative impact of resource revenues on research development and human capital, which hinder the structure of the production (Edwards, 2016; Kamguia et al, 2022). Contrary to the results of Lapatinas et al (2019), government size is found to be an important mechanism for enhancing economic sophistication.…”

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Investigating the effects of globalization on economic sophistication in selected African countries

Nguea

Fotio

Baida

2022

African Development Review

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This research investigates the effects of globalization on economic sophistication for 27 African countries over the 1996–2017 period by employing Driscoll and Kraay standard errors and system generalized method of moments. We find that globalization enhances economic sophistication. Accounting for the dimensions of globalization, the results show that economic, social, and political globalization matter for enhancing economic sophistication. Furthermore, the decomposition of economic and social globalization indicates that financial globalization, trade openness, and FDI enhance economic sophistication, whereas Internet usage negatively affects economic sophistication. Policies to sustain the global integration pathway can enhance the diversity and sophistication of products in African countries.

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Investigating the effects of globalization on economic sophistication in selected African countries

Nguea

Fotio

Baida

2022

African Development Review

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“…Total natural resource rents are the sum of oil rents, natural gas rents, coal rents, mineral rents and forest rents. The choice of this proxy is in line with the recent works of Kamguia et al (2022) and Munemo (2022). As suggested by Brunnschweiler and Bulte (2008), it is more appropriate to think of this ratio as a measure of dependence rather than as a measure of abundance.…”

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“…Since the seminal work of Sachs and Warner (1995, 2001) arguing the detrimental impact of natural resources on economic growth, several studies have analysed the relationship between natural resources and growth, leading to mixed conclusions. Other studies have extended the resource curse hypothesis to various development outcomes, including export diversification (Djimeu & Omgba, 2019), human capital (Mousavi & Clark, 2021), agricultural productivity (Dorinet et al, 2021), wealth inequality (Njangang et al, 2022), entrepreneurship (Munemo, 2022), women's political empowerment (Awoa et al, 2022), economic complexity (Ajide, 2022), access to safe water and sanitation (Tadadjeu et al, 2020, 2022), innovation (Kamguia et al, 2022) and the profitability of public enterprises (Lim & Morris, 2022).…”

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Are natural resources also bad for infrastructure quality?

Tadadjeu

Ningaye

Njangang

2022

J of Intl Development

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This study contributes to the extensive non-consensus literature on the resource curse by examining the effect of natural resource dependence on infrastructure quality. We show that natural resources on average have a negative effect on the overall quality of infrastructure, including the quality of various infrastructures such as roads, ports, railroads, airports and the quality of electricity supply. However, we find that, beyond a certain threshold, natural resources improve the quality of some infrastructure. This study also supports the importance of improving the quality of institutions, as we show that natural resources are a blessing for the infrastructure quality in countries with a better institu tional framework.

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“…The global innovation index (GII) is an annual ranking jointly established by the world intellectual property organization, Cornell University, and the European School of business administration in 2007. It measures the performance of more than 120 economies in the world in innovation capacity (Hu et al, 2022;Jahanger et al, 2022;Kamguia et al, 2022;Lee and Wang, 2022). We use GII to measure the level of technological innovation in various countries.…”

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Global antimony supply risk assessment through the industry chain

Zhu

2022

Front. Energy Res.

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Antimony is a type of critical metal for the energy transition. The antimony industry chain is distributed among the major developed and developing countries around the world. With the development of clean energy technology, the demand for antimony in photovoltaic and energy storage fields will increase significantly. Considering the significant changes in the global demand for antimony products and the serious supply shortage, people should pay more attention to the supply risk of related products of the antimony industry chain. In this paper, we propose a new integrated index to evaluate the supply risk of antimony industry chain related products, including Herfindahl Hirschman index, global governance index, human development index, global innovation index, and betweenness centrality in complex networks. Meanwhile, seven commodities in the antimony industry chain are selected for empirical analysis from 2011 to 2019. The results show that countries with high supply risks of the industry chain upstream include Canada, France, Germany, India, Japan, Thailand, and the United Kingdom. And, Australia, India, Japan, Thailand, and Vietnam are with high supply risks in the midstream of the industry chain. Meanwhile, Canada, India, Japan, and Thailand are with high downstream supply risks. Some countries, like China, the United States, and Germany, play a core role in different sectors of the industry chain. International competitive relations of countries have caused a high supply risk of products related to the antimony industry chain. The supply risk of the antimony industry chain shows that countries must strengthen industrial division and cooperation to maximize their interests. It is suggested to take the country-specific measures to mitigate supply risks, including establishing national inventories of critical materials, overseas investment, strengthening the guidance of industrial policies, and accelerating infrastructure construction.

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Natural resources and innovation: Is the R&D sector cursed too?

Cited by 24 publications

References 88 publications

Investigating the effects of globalization on economic sophistication in selected African countries

Investigating the effects of globalization on economic sophistication in selected African countries

Are natural resources also bad for infrastructure quality?

Global antimony supply risk assessment through the industry chain

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