Knowledge diffusion and new technologies: a spillover analysis on the artificial intelligence case

This paper studies knowledge diffusion between different types of organisations (platforms, large organisations, and smaller organisations) through spillovers within the artificial intelligence (AI) sector. Analysing patent-based data from 2000 to 2019 and a large panel of approximately 97,000 worldwide applicants, we observe that knowledge created by all categories positively influence knowledge creation within the sample. However, the benefits of spillovers vary across categories, with platforms that show limited gains from knowledge diffusion, while smaller organisations emerge as the primary beneficiaries of knowledge created by the other categories.