intensive countries reduce domestic R&D effort, in favour of an increase in foreign technology transfers, which suggests … complementarities in the knowledge assets of the MNE and the target firm as a reason for FDI. In contrast, consistent with technology … ; acquisition FDI ; knowledge complementarities ; technology sourcing …

This paper studies the causal effect of technology and knowledge transfers on early industrial development. Between … that receiving both Soviet technology and know-how had large, persistent effects on plant performance, while the effects of …

This paper examines how product market competition affects firms' timing of adopting a new technology as well as …. When goods are differentiated enough, adoption occurs later than it is socially optimal. -- technology adoption …

-1994. The interaction of this pre-existing network structure with patent growth in upstream technology fields has strong … strength. Past innovation network structures are calculated using citation patterns across technology classes during 1975 … innovation for a particular technology class to build on, then that technology class innovates more. …

small and medium sized cities. Patent applications are used as the measure of innovation. Human capital indicators used …