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THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF R&D COLLABORATION:
MICRO- AND MACRO-LEVEL IMPLICATIONS
by
Matthew A. Shapiro
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY
(POLITICAL ECONOMY & PUBLIC POLICY)
August 2008
Copyright 2008 Matthew A. Shapiro
Object Description
| Title | The political economy of R&D collaboration: micro- and macro-level implications |
| Author | Shapiro, Matthew A. |
| Author email | mattheas@usc.edu |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Political Economy & Public Policy |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2008-05-06 |
| Date submitted | 2008 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2008-07-25 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Nugent, Jeffrey |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Sellers, Jefferey Moore, James |
| Abstract | This dissertation speaks to three separate but related issues on R&D collaboration. The first chapter details the various ways in which entities from the public and private research sectors transfer information. In Korea and Taiwan, information transfers are shown to have a positive impact on public-private R&D output in both countries, but government funding is a much stronger predictor of such transfers in Taiwan. The second chapter focuses on the research-based links between the government, universities, and firms, and tests the Triple Helix-based hypothesis that new capital arises from the interactions between the public and private research sectors. Focusing again on Korea and Taiwan, repartnering tendencies (as a proxy for new capital) are found to be strong predictors of R&D output, with virtually no differences between these two countries. In the third chapter, attention is drawn to R&D collaboration between countries, and it is shown that international R&D collaboration has a positive impact on the growth residual (TFP), and that it has a bonus effect to a country's patenting efforts. It is also shown that developing countries derive particular benefit from international R&D collaboration, but such benefits are largely dependent on the presence of strong political institutions and intellectual property rights. In terms of data and methods, Chapters 1 and 2 utilize a unique dataset (KORTAI R&D), which is specific to the Korean and Taiwanese cases, while the macro-level analysis of Chapter 3 uses data for a maximum of 150 countries drawn from the USPTO, WDI, Penn World Table, Barro-Lee education data, the Ginarte-Park IPR index, POLITY IV, and POLCON. OLS and ordered logit statistical methods are applied in Chapters 1 and 2, and fixed effects GLS methods are used in Chapter 3. |
| Keyword | R&D; East Asia; Korea; Taiwan; technology; growth; collaboration |
| Geographic subject (country) | Korea; Taiwan |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m1411 |
| Rights | Shapiro, Matthew A. |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Shapiro-20080725 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume32/etd-Shapiro-20080725.pdf |
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| Full text | THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF R&D COLLABORATION: MICRO- AND MACRO-LEVEL IMPLICATIONS by Matthew A. Shapiro A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (POLITICAL ECONOMY & PUBLIC POLICY) August 2008 Copyright 2008 Matthew A. Shapiro |
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