Blanco German, Goel Rajeev K
Illinois State University, Normal, IL USA.
GLO, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
J Technol Transf. 2023 Mar 7:1-26. doi: 10.1007/s10961-023-09997-7.
This paper focuses on institutional influences on innovation efficiency across countries. Whereas various causes and effects of technological change have been examined, empirical investigations of the efficiency involved in innovation production are relatively few. Using data on a large sample of nations over 2018-2020 and considering corruption, regulatory quality, and state fragility as alternative institutional dimensions, our results show that greater corruption facilitates ("greases") efficiency in the production of innovations. This is also the case with improvements in regulatory quality, while greater state fragility increases inefficiency. These findings for the overall sample are somewhat different for the OECD and non-OECD subsamples, although the greasing effect of corruption remains throughout. A robustness check with patent protection and government size as alternative institutional dimensions is also conducted.
本文聚焦于各国制度对创新效率的影响。尽管技术变革的各种因果关系已得到研究，但对创新生产中效率的实证研究相对较少。利用2018 - 2020年大量国家的样本数据，并将腐败、监管质量和国家脆弱性视为替代性制度维度，我们的结果表明，更大程度的腐败促进（“润滑”）了创新生产中的效率。监管质量的提高也是如此，而更大程度的国家脆弱性则会导致效率低下。总体样本的这些发现对于经合组织（OECD）和非经合组织子样本而言有些不同，尽管腐败的润滑效应始终存在。我们还以专利保护和政府规模作为替代性制度维度进行了稳健性检验。
