Working Paper #2014-088
Temperate climate - Innovative outputs nexus
Technological change is a vital human activity that interacts with
geographic factors and environment. The purpose of the study here is to
analyse the relationship between geo-climate zones of the globe and
technological outputs in order to detect favourable areas that spur
higher technological change and, as a consequence, human development.
The main finding is that innovative outputs are higher in geographical
areas with a temperate climate (latitudes). In fact, warm temperate
climates are favourable environments for human societies that, by a
long-run process of adaptation and learning, create platforms of
institutions and communications systems, infrastructures, legal systems,
economic governance and socio-economic networks that support inventions
and diffusion of innovations. The linkages between observed facts show
the vital geo-climate sources of fruitful patterns of the technological
innovation and economic growth.
- Keywords
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- Innovation
- Temperate Zone
- Climate
- Technology
- Technological Change
- Patent
- Economic Growth
- Society
- JEL codes
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- O10
- O30
- R1
- R11
- R12
Cite this as
APA 7th ed.Coccia, M. (2014). Temperate climate - Innovative outputs nexus (UNU-MERIT Working Paper No. 2014-088). UNU-MERIT. https://unu-merit.nl/publications/working-papers/abstract/?id=5603