• Media type: Report; E-Book
  • Title: International R&D Spillovers and Marginal Social Returns on R&D
  • Contributor: Ogawa, Kazuo [Author]; Sterken, Elmer [Author]; Tokutsu, Ichiro [Author]
  • Published: Munich: Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), 2016
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: social returns ; private returns ; spillovers ; O47 ; R&D ; total factor productivity ; E22 ; O32 ; O33
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  • Description: We analyze the impact of international R&D spillovers on recipient countries in terms of social and private returns. We divide the aggregate R&D stock by the business, government and education sectors and examine the impact on Total Factor Productivity. We endogenize the accrual of the R&D stocks by estimating an R&D investment function. We find that the marginal social returns on R&D are much larger than the marginal private returns for R&D-intensive countries. It implies that R&D intensive countries are expected to generate more spillovers at the margin, but the observed R&D stock is smaller than the socially optimal level.
  • Access State: Open Access