The Global Innovation Scoreboard 2008: The Dynamics of the Innovative Performances of Countries

Do Productive Capabilities Affect Export Performance? Evidence from African Firms

“…This is because a country with a large knowledge set is easily able to recombine different knowledge sets for the production of new goods, and can easily shift into the production of complex products. A country that produces more diversified, sophisticated and complex products is considered to have superior capability, to be more competitive, to generate higher returns in international markets and to perform better (Archibugi et al 2009;Daude et al 2016;Hausmann 2016;Hildago and Hausmann 2009;Javorcik et al 2017).…”

“…Recent empirical works measuring productive capabilities have done so either using aggregated indicators, such as the economic complexity index(Archibugi et al 2009;Daude et al 2016;Hausmann 2016; Hidalgo and Hausman 2009;Javorcik et al 2017), the economic fitness index (for exampleRoster et al 2018) or country-level data Srholec 2008, 2017).…”

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“…When the explanations up to this point are analyzed at the country level, it is not difficult to say that although several rankings place EU member states such as Sweden, Finland, Germany, Denmark, and UK among the world leaders in terms of innovation performance, the rest of the EU member states remain mid-range, and the aggregate performance of the EU27 lags behind that of US and Japan, despite their significant prevalence over BRICS countries. In addition, China and India are quickly catching up with the former, displaying a particularly rapid rate of relative improvement; where, if China maintains its rate of improvement over the last five years, the performance gap with the EU27 will diminish in the short term [Archibugi et al, 2009]. Moreover, other Asian countries, such as South Korea and Singapore, which recently came to be considered the new innovation hot-spots, are also on their way forward.…”

Do innovation dimensions matter in China’s cross-regional income differences?

“…Arundel and Hollanders (2006); Hollanders and Van Cruysen (2008) and Archibugi, Denni, and Filippetti (2009) (2002), we specify the equations below that link innovation inputs and one innovation output (i.e. Patent) and the impact of innovation output on economic development:…”