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The study of international technology spillover focuses on bilateral relationship between host country and home country, and the study of transnational technology network focuses on the position and power of individual country in a network. Introducing the network model and information theory into the research framework, we propose a new measure of international technology spillover in this present article, in which the bilateral relationship was transformed to multilateral relationship between countries, and network features at the whole network level were investigated instead of at the individual level. By using data from CHELEM-International Trade Database, we measure three transnational spillover networks in the high-tech field from 1979 to 2009, and analyze the results of various technology networks at different time points.
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Considering the characteristics at the whole network level is the point of the present article, so we only put forward the visualization of the whole network and no analysis of nodes’ power in network.
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The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support from the EU 7th Framework Programme-Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowships (MC IIF), National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) under the Grant Nos. 71203020, 71173026 and 71033002, Youth Foundation for Humanities and Social Science of Ministry of Education of China under the Grant nos. 2YJCZH178, and. Yu-tao SUN truly appreciates the supports from Dr. Cong Cao—Reader at the University of Nottingham.
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Sun, Yt., Liu, Fc. Measuring international trade-related technology spillover: a composite approach of network analysis and information theory. Scientometrics 94, 963–979 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-012-0860-0
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