Template-type: ReDif-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Coccia M. 
Author-workplace-name: UNU-MERIT
Title: Temperate climate - Innovative outputs nexus
Abstract: 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: Economic Development: General; Technological Change; Research and Development; Intellectual Property Rights: General; Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes; Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity; 
Classification-JEL: O10; O30; R11; R12; .
Series:  Working Papers
Creation-Date: 2014
Number: 088
File-URL: http://pub.maastrichtuniversity.nl/00de7e76-2e97-48a9-a1bc-2dcf3a6ede25
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 865002
Handle: RePEc:unm:unumer:2014088