Fulvio Castellacci

Firms Internationalization in the Service Industries: Evidence for Norway

Innovation Surveys in Latin America: A Primer

Book Review of "Innovation and Regional Growth in the European Union", by R. Crescenzi and A. Rodriguez-Pose

Innovation and Regional Growth in the European Union

Innovation, Absorptive Capacity and Complexity along Development Stages

The trade-off between Innovation and Defence Industrial Policy - A Simulation Model Analysis of the Norwegian Defence Industry

Business Groups, Innovation and Institutional Voids in Latin America

Capable Companies or changing markets? Explaining the export performance of firms in the defence industry

Closing the Technology Gap?

A new panel dataset for cross-country analyses of national systems, growth and development (CANA)

Missing data represent an important limitation for cross-country analyses of national systems, growth and development. This paper presents a new cross-country panel dataset with no missing value. We make use of a new method of multiple imputation that has recently been developed by Honaker and King (2010) to deal specifically with time-series cross-section data at the country-level. We apply this method to construct a large dataset containing a great number of indicators measuring six key country-specific dimensions: innovation and technological capabilities, education system and human capital, infrastructures, economic competitiveness, political-institutional factors, and social capital. The CANA panel dataset thus obtained provides a rich and complete set of 41 indicators for 134 countries in the period 1980-2008 (for a total of 3886 country-year observations). The empirical analysis shows the reliability of the dataset and its usefulness for cross-country analyses of national systems, growth and development. The new dataset is publicly available.