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Innovation systems and changes in the core-periphery divide: Notes on a methodology to determine countries’ trajectories usingscience and technology statistics
- Source: CEPAL Review, Volume 2020, Issue 130, Apr 2020, p. 43 - 61
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- 26 May 2021
Abstract
This paper presents a methodology to evaluate the international position of national innovation systems. Data on patents, scientific articles, population and gross domestic product (GDP) for all countries for 1974, 1982, 1990, 1998, 2006, 2012 and 2014 form the basis for the application of this country clustering methodology. In addition to establishing a threshold between clusters (the core-periphery divide interpreted on the basis of science and technology data), it is possible to capture movement in thresholds, driven by technological revolutions in core countries. The result is a dynamic framework, which makes it increasingly difficult to implement convergence processes.
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