caa a22 4500 445854227 CHVBK 20180317145423.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s00191-010-0181-5 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s00191-010-0181-5 Inventing together: exploring the nature of international knowledge spillovers in Latin America [Elektronische Daten] [Fabio Montobbio, Valerio Sterzi] This paper studies the nature, sources and determinants of international patenting activity in Latin American countries (LACs) and examines the extent to which LACs benefit from R&D that is performed in the G-5 countries (France, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States). By using patents and patent citations from the United States Patent and Trademark Office, we trace sectoral knowledge flows from G-5 countries to LACs. We study the impact of three channels of knowledge flows: foreign R&D, patent citation-related spillovers, and face-to-face contact spillovers. Our results, based on data for Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico, suggest that international knowledge spillovers from the G-5 countries were a significant determinant of inventive activity during the period 1988-2003. We find that the stock of ideas produced in the USA has a strong impact on the international patenting activity of these countries. Moreover, controlling for US-driven R&D effects, bilateral patent citations and face-to-face relationships between inventors are both important additional mechanisms of knowledge transmission. Some of our results suggest that the latter mechanism is more important than the former. Springer-Verlag, 2010 Innovation nationallicence R&D spillover nationallicence Knowledge flows nationallicence Latin America nationallicence Patents nationallicence Citations nationallicence Inventors nationallicence Montobbio Fabio University of Insubria, via Monte Generoso 71, 21100, Varese, Italy aut Sterzi Valerio KITeS—Bocconi University, Milan, Italy aut Journal of Evolutionary Economics Springer-Verlag 21/1(2011-02-01), 53-89 0936-9937 21:1<53 2011 21 191 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00191-010-0181-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00191-010-0181-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Montobbio Fabio University of Insubria, via Monte Generoso 71, 21100, Varese, Italy aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Sterzi Valerio KITeS—Bocconi University, Milan, Italy aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Evolutionary Economics Springer-Verlag 21/1(2011-02-01), 53-89 0936-9937 21:1<53 2011 21 191 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer