The Effect of Internationalisation on Inventor Mobility in India

This research focuses on inventor mobility as a way of creating knowledge spillovers as externalities. Taking India as the country of study, a logit model tests how inventor mobility is affected by foreign co-authorship while controlling for the patent act implementation of 2005 and industry differentiation. A differences-in-differences-in-differences analysis portrays the main finding of an additional negative effect on intra-firm knowledge spillovers when an inventor has at least one foreign co-author relative to none, while working at the biotechnology industry relative to one working at any other industry and after the 2005 implementation of the Patent Act relative to before it.