DYNAMICS OF KNOWLEDGE ACCUMULATION IN TECHNOLOGY FOLLOWER COUNTRIES: A SYSTEM DYNAMICS APPROACH

In this paper the process of knowledge accumulation for a particular technology is studied. Two countries, say the technology follower and the technology frontier, are considered. The frontier's knowledge growth is determined by its R&D efforts on the technology. The level of knowledge stock for the follower countryis augmented by its R&D activities for the technology and absorbing some of the external knowledge through spillover from the frontier. The extent to which the follower is able to exploit the external knowledge depends on technological gap, absorptive capacity, absorption time and degree of spillover. New concepts such as natural and enhanced degree of spillover, background and innovative knowledge and absorption speed are introduced in the present work to deeply explore the process of knowledge spillover. The factors influencing the knowledge development in the long term are simultaneously studied in an integrated structure provided by the System Dynamics approach. This framework shows the responses to the changes and provides the basis for examining the interactions among the variables over time.

作 者： Ehsan SHAFIEI Mohammad-Bagher GHOFRANI Yadollah SABOOHI   作者單位： Ehsan SHAFIEI(Power and Energy Planning Department, Ministry of Energy, Tehran, Iran)

Mohammad-Bagher GHOFRANI(Department of Energy Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran)

Yadollah SABOOHI(Sharif Energy Research Inst., Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran) 

刊 名： 系統科學與系統工程學報（英文版）  英文刊名： JOURNAL OF SYSTEMS SCIENCE AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING  年，卷(期)： 2009 18(3)  分類號：   關鍵詞： Knowledge spillover   technology follower   absorptive capacity   absorption speed   knowledge complexity   system dynamics  

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