CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2019
| Author | Zador, Zsofia |
|---|---|
| Title | Effect of the 2004 EU Accession on Patent Quality in the Central Eastern European Region |
| Summary | This thesis investigates how international collaborations with OECD nationals affect patent quality in the regions of the EU8 countries between 1990 and 2010. This was both before and after the accession to the European Union and the European Research Area (ERA) in 2004. To understand how international knowledge flows impact the previously more secluded regions of Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia, social network and econometric analyses are carried out based on the 2015 OECD REGPAT database. In the OLS and propensity score weighted difference-in-differences model radicalness is used as a quality measure. Radicalness measures how many different IPC technology classes the cited patents belong to. The findings show that regions of the EU8 have a 18.3 percentage point higher radicalness on average after treatment than the control group of Romania and Bulgaria. While joining the EU has a statistically significant positive effect on radicalness it cannot be regarded as international knowledge transfer, as is shown through the E-I index. Instead, the more inward-looking regions are, the better they are at patenting. International inventors are marginal in the collaboration network and thus are unable to create knowledge spillovers to other inventors they do not directly interact with. The seclusion of foreigners in the CEE region is supported by comparing the centralities of CEE and international inventors. These findings reveal that the benefits of the European Union lead inventors to better patenting and highlight the shortcomings of the ERA. In order to have successful knowledge flows it is not sufficient to only encourage the quantity of international collaborations. Foreign inventors also need to be embedded in the patenting network, so the innovation that is brought about by them can further spill over in the region and have a long-term effect. |
| Supervisor | Bőgel, György; Balázs, Lengyel |
| Department | Economics MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2019/zador_zsofia.pdf |
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