Determinants of Frontier Innovation and Technology Adoption: Cross-Country Evidence

Most conventional macroeconomic measures of innovation, such as research and development (R&D) spending or patenting, focus on frontier innovation in contrast to the adoption and adaptation of existing technologies. To capture technology adoption at the country level, this paper exploits a novel measure of innovation based on the innovation intensity of a country’s exports.

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