Taylor MZ. "Empirical evidence against varieties of capitalism's theory of technological innovation" International Organization 58(3):601-631 Summer 2004

[Eugene Garfield]

email: mzak at mit.edu

Of particular interest is Table 8 on page 627... "Relative prominence of
scientific literature by country/economy and field (1999)"

Title: Empirical evidence against varieties of capitalism's theory of
technological innovation

Author(s): Taylor MZ

Source: INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION 58 (3): 601-631 SUM 2004

Cited References: 44

Abstract:
How can one explain cross-national differences in innovative activity across
the industrialized democracies? In this article, I examine the "varieties of
capitalism" (VOC) response to this question. VOC theory predicts that
societies with liberal-market economies will direct their inventive activity
toward radical technological change, while societies with coordinated-market
economies will direct their inventive activity toward incremental
technological change. I find that these predictions are not supported by the
empirical data, and that the evidence offered by VOC proponents depends
heavily on the inclusion of a major outlier, the United States, in the class
of liberal-market economies. My empirical investigation includes simple
patent counts, patents weighted by forward citations, and scholarly
publications (both simple counts and citations-weighted). I analyze data
covering all of the VOC countries over the course of several decades, little
of which reveals the innovative patterns predicted by VOC scholars.

Addresses: Taylor MZ (reprint author), MIT, Dept Polit Sci, Cambridge, MA
02139 USA
MIT, Dept Polit Sci, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA

E-mail Addresses: mzak at mit.edu

Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, 40 WEST 20TH ST, NEW YORK, NY 10011-4211 USA

IDS Number: 848DK
ISSN: 0020-8183

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