Chart of the Week January 27, 2023: Technology from home or abroad?

Summary: The residential status of patent applicants indicates the source of inventions in a country. Different technological development strategies of nations affect the structures of patent applicants’ profiles. For example, China’s favourable policies towards domestic innovation culminated in residents’ share in the country’s total patent filings at 90% in 2021. In contrast, 86% of Singapore […]

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Chart of the Week November 18, 2022: Are Ideas Harder to Find in Singapore?

Summary: Are ideas harder to get? Nicholas Bloom, Charles Jones, John Van Reenen and Michael Webb (AER, 2020) documented the contrast between the continuously uprising research input and the stable total factor productivity (TFP) growth globally. In the case of Singapore, the contrast is even more striking. Since 2000, R&D personnel per million population in […]

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