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Product Sophistication and Spillovers from Foreign Direct Investment
Eck, Katharina; Huber, Stephan - Institut für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung (IOS) - 2014
sophistication and spillovers from FDI. We then explore different channels through which spillovers from multinationals to local … knowledge and technology spillovers to local firms. One way how FDI speeds up growth is that it facilitates the manufacturing of … firms affects the product sophistication of firms in a developing country. This paper aims to fill this gap. We compile an …
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The Effects of Stronger Intellectual Property Rights on Technology Transfer: Evidence from Japanese Firm-level Data
Wakasugi, Ryuhei; Ito, Banri - Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University - 2007
It is noteworthy that intra-firm technology transfer has grown rapidly in recent years as a major part of international technology transfer. This paper presents empirical analysis of the effect of stronger Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) on technology transfer from parent firm to its...
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WAYS OF IMPROVING FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT (FDI) CONTRIBUTION TO ROMANIA‘S SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Zaman, Gheorghe - In: Annales Universitatis Apulensis Series Oeconomica 2 (2012) 14, pp. 30-30
The paper analysis the macro and micro ways of improving FDI contribution toRomania‘s sustainable development. Part.1 is devoted to FDI macroeconomic factors of influenceregarding: theoretical and practical aspects of sectoral structure and technological level of FDI;regional and country of...
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Linkages and technology spillovers in the presence of foreign firms: Evidence from the Indian pharmaceutical industry
Pattnayak, Sanja Samirana; Thangavelu, Shandre M. - In: Journal of Economic Studies 38 (2011) July, pp. 275-286
Purpose – This paper aims to examine production linkage and technology spillovers due to the presence of foreign firms …
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On Multinational Firms, Diffusion of Skills and Development
Monge-Naranjo, Alexander - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2006
I study the implications for the development of a country hosting of multinational firms. The paper argues that despite the negative impact on existing local firms, the presence of foreign firms induce the emergence of a new sector of domestic firms and that in the long term, the country to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005069334
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The role of patent protection in (clean/green) technology transfer.
Hall, Bronwyn H.; Helmers, Christian - Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), … - 2010
Global climate change mitigation will require the development and diffusion of a large number and variety of new technologies. How will patent protection affect this process? In this paper we first review the evidence on the role of patents for innovation and international technology transfer in...
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Agglomeration and the Location of Innovative Activity
Audretsch, David B - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
essential to innovative activity. Such knowledge spillovers tend to be spatially restricted. Thus, an irony of globalization is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005661735
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Innovation in Cities: Science-Based Diversity, Specialization and Localized Competition
Audretsch, David B; Feldman, Maryann P - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
a narrow concentrated set of economic activities is more conducive to knowledge spillovers or if diversity, by bringing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662217
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Foreign Direct Investment and Firm Level Productivity in Kenyan Manufacturing: A Panel Data Analysis
Gachino, Geoffrey G. - In: Institutions and Economies (formerly known as … 2 (2010) 1, pp. 17-57
presence on firm level productivity, thus supporting the occurrence of spillovers. The paper argues that the use of … productivity based methodologies largely masks the nature, actual processes and mechanisms through which spillovers occur. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008790218
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Endogenous Growth when Unskilled Labour is Abundant
Robertson, P. E. - School of Economics, UNSW Business School - 1997
An extension of the Uzawa-Lucas endogenous growth model is discussed which incorporates diminishing returns to human capital and unskilled labour in aggregate labour inputs. This extension is important in the context of developing economies, due to their abundance of unskilled labour, relative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005478638