Economic Development
Behrooz Shahmoradi; Mojgan Samandar Ali Eshtehardi
Abstract
Economic complexity is a concept that is used to express the ability of countries to produce complex products through the proper construction of technology structures in order to collect its diverse technologies and apply them. In this article, by using economic complexity approach, we aimed to identify ...
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Economic complexity is a concept that is used to express the ability of countries to produce complex products through the proper construction of technology structures in order to collect its diverse technologies and apply them. In this article, by using economic complexity approach, we aimed to identify the products in Iran’s technological capabilities frontier that leads the country to produce more diverse and complex products. For this purpose, by using four-digit SITC classification data, 86 products were identified. By producing and exporting them, the country can reach a higher accumulation of technological capabilities and thus a higher degree of diversification and economic complexity. Also, according to three criteria, the total number of competitors, the volume of world trade and the number of importing countries from selected products, 16 products in the world and 11 products in the region were picked up as the products in priority.
Mojgan Samandar Ali Eshtehardi; Naser Ali Azimi; Behrooz Shahmoradi
Abstract
Moving towards a knowledge-based economy, in which growth depends on the quantity, quality, and availability of existing information, is of great importance. The amount of technological knowledge available in a country reflects the level of development. One of the most reliable indicators for measuring ...
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Moving towards a knowledge-based economy, in which growth depends on the quantity, quality, and availability of existing information, is of great importance. The amount of technological knowledge available in a country reflects the level of development. One of the most reliable indicators for measuring the amount of technological knowledge of countries is the Economic Complexity Index. The research attempts to examine the causal relationship between the economic complexity and the components of the knowledge economy. To this end, a panel data model was used. The data consists of 113 countries over the period 2016-2006. For the knowledge economy, we used fourteen variables, which were introduced by the World Bank. By employing Principle Component Analysis, four components were calculated as indicators of the four knowledge economic pillars. Then, the Granger causality relation of these components with the economic complexity was investigated. The result shows that there is a two-way causal relationship between the components of Education, Communication and Information Technology, Economic Institution and economic complexity, and one-way causal relationship from Innovation to Economic complexity. Furthermore, the causal relationship varies among OECD and non-OECD countries.
