Many countries in the world have adopted policies to attract foreign direct investment (FDI), placing the traditional … focus on the maximisation of FDI flows, what can be labeled as a quantitative approach. Recently it has been argued that the … FDI policy should be more selective, promoting good quality FDI inflows. The "quality" implies a certain level of …

This paper deals with the interplay between foreign direct investment (FDI) and the industrial and innovation policies … existing foreign-owned affiliates, instead of striving to attract higher volumes of FDI inflows. …

This paper uses firm-level survey data of Kenyan manufacturing industry to examine the significance of FDI and firm … revealed a statistically significant role played by FDI in determining human capital development in all the firms. Other … choice of Kenyan manufacturing industry presents an ideal case to evaluate FDI, firm-level capabilities and human capital …

Studies of the relationship between FDI and domestic investment levels reach contradictory findings. We revisit this … conclude that FDI inflows contribute positively to domestic investment levels. We also find weak evidence that `good governance …. Theoretical arguments support either positive or negative interaction effects of `good governance' and FDI on investment, invoking …

After joining the World Trade Organization (WTO), China witnessed a major inflow of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI … interrelationships between, innovation input and innovation output, and in particular whether FDI had any influence on these two aspects …/2003 and 2005/2006. The findings show that FDI firms are less R&D intensive but, when they innovate in new products, they are …