Ioannis Mourmouris

On the Effect of Technological Gap on International Patenting: A Multi-Criteria Approach

George Geronikolaou & Ioannis Mourmouris · Journal of Economics, Management and Trade · 2015

This paper tests the effect of technological distance (the difference in technological progress between two countries) on the bilateral technology diffusion, measured by the flow of patent applications. To do so, the PROMETHEE II method is applied in order to construct an annual...