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Technology Spillovers and International Borders: A Spatial Econometric Analysis

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  • Amjad Naveed
  • Nisar Ahmad

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The borders of the EU are open for the movement of resources but still there can be some strong negative effects of international borders on productivity and knowledge spillovers compared to the internal regional borders. These negative effects could be due to language barriers, cultural differences, local rules and regulation, legal issues, property rights, etc. These effects of international borders have an economic significance that need to be controlled when analyzing the regional knowledge spillovers. This aspect related to international borders has not been fully taken into account in the existing literature related to knowledge spillovers, therefore, ignoring this effect might under- or overestimate the effect of knowledge and technology spillovers. The results show that technology and knowledge spillovers are mainly coming from internal neighbor regions only, whereas spillovers across the international borders are statistically insignificant. Moreover, the results show that not properly incorporating border effects will lead to inaccurate estimates of the spillovers.

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  • Amjad Naveed & Nisar Ahmad, 2016. "Technology Spillovers and International Borders: A Spatial Econometric Analysis," Journal of Borderlands Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 31(4), pages 441-461, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rjbsxx:v:31:y:2016:i:4:p:441-461
    DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2016.1188669
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