@workingpaper{Asongu2013q,
title = {A brief future of Time in the monopoly of scientific knowledge},
author = {Simplice A Asongu},
editor = {African 2013 Governance and Development Institute WP/13/001},
url = {http://www.afridev.org/RePEc/agd/agd-wpaper/A-brief-future-of-Time-in-the-monopoly-of-scientific-knowledge.pdf},
year = {2013},
date = {2013-05-01},
abstract = {This seminal paper provides global empirical evidence on catch-up processes in
scientific and technical publications. Its purpose is to model the future of scientific knowledge
monopoly in order to understand whether the impressive growth experienced by latecomers in
the industry has been accompanied by a similar catch-up in scientific capabilities and
knowledge contribution. The empirical evidence is based on 41 catch-up panels which
together consist of 99 countries. The richness of the dataset allows us to disaggregate
countries into fundamental characteristics based on income-levels (high-income, lowermiddle-income,
upper-middle-income and low-income), legal-origins (English common-law,
French civil-law, German civil-law and, Scandinavian civil-law) and, regional proximity
(South Asia, Europe & Central Asia, East Asia & the Pacific, Middle East & North Africa,
Latin America & the Caribbean and, Sub-Saharan Africa). Three main issues are
investigated: the presence or not of catch-up processes, the speed of the catch-up processes
and, the time needed for full (100%) catch-up. The findings based on absolute and conditional
catch-up patterns broadly show that advanced countries will continue to dominate in scientific
knowledge contribution. Policy implications are discussed.},
keywords = {Research and Development; Catch-up},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {workingpaper}
}