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The impact of cooperation with foreign innovators on the concentration of technology in Central and Eastern Europe

This paper analyses the relationship between the cooperation of domestic and foreign innovators and the level of technology concentration in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe in their post-transition period. In the early 1990s, new opportunities opened up for innovators from Central and Eastern Europe to cooperate with innovators from abroad, enabling the internationalization and transfer of knowledge and technology, and consequently their spread within the country. As the country's competitiveness depends on the growth of knowledge, and the growth of knowledge on technology and knowledge transfer, the paper assumes that the growth of knowledge concentration contributes to the growth of competitiveness of small open economies of Central and Eastern Europe in their post- transition period. The aim of this paper is to examine whether the cooperation of domestic and foreign innovators has influenced the growth of the concentration of knowledge and technology in certain technological fields. Regression panel analysis was conducted on a sample of 8 Central and Eastern European countries in the period from 1995 to 2018. The annual data of the OECD database were used in this paper. The level of concentration of land technology was calculated using the Herfindahl-Hirschman index based on data on the number of patents of 35 technology domains grouped into 6 technology fields. The results of the research show that cooperation with foreign innovators has a positive impact on the level of technology concentration. Therefore, the impact of international cooperation on the technology concentration of Central and Eastern European countries may lead to specialization and, consequently, to their growth in competitiveness. Future research should examine the differences between developed and transition countries, and take into account national aid and subsidy systems for each industry.

concentration of technology ; international cooperation ; patenting with foreign innovators ; Central and Eastern Europe ; post-transition

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