Journal
RESEARCH POLICY
Volume 46, Issue 7, Pages 1272-1283Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2017.05.014
Keywords
Democracy; Innovation; Patent data; DID method
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- National Social Science Foundation [14ZDA011, 15BZZ001, 16ZGA001]
- Basic Research Funds for China's Central Universities [2242016S20013]
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Democratic countries produce higher levels of innovation than autocratic ones, but does democratization itself lead to innovation growth either in the short or in the long run? The existing literature has extensively examined the relationship between democracy and growth but seldom explored the effect of democracy on innovation, which might be an important channel through which democracy contributes to economic growth. This article aims to fill this gap and contribute to the long-standing debate on the relationship between democracy and innovation by offering empirical evidence based on a data set covering 156 countries between 1964 and 2010. The results from the difference-in-differences method show that democracy itself has no direct positive effect on innovation measured with patent counts, patent citations and patent originality.
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