Giroud, Axèle; Jindra, Björn; Marek, Philipp - In: World Development 40 (2012) 11, pp. 2206-2220
Traditional models of technology transfer via FDI rely upon technology gap and absorptive capacity arguments to explain host economies’ potential to benefit from technological spillovers. This paper emphasizes foreign affiliates’ technological heterogeneity. We apply a novel approach...