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  • The Global Competitiveness Report 2001–2002

National Innovative Capacity

By: Michael E. Porter and Scott Stern
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Abstract

This chapter delves in detail into the conditions that allow a country to innovate at the global technology frontier. The findings reveal the striking degree to which the national circumstances actually explain the differences across countries in innovative activity measured by US patenting.

Keywords

Economics

Citation

Porter, Michael E., and Scott Stern. "National Innovative Capacity." In The Global Competitiveness Report 2001–2002, by Michael E. Porter, Jeffrey D. Sachs, Peter K. Cornelius, John W. McArthur, and Klaus Schwab. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
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Michael E. Porter

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