We examine whether an increase in foreign direct investment (FDI) flows necessarily increases international technology … transfer (ITT). The answer to this question depends on whether FDI is the sole channel of ITT or whether other channels of ITT … such as imitation are present for the host country. A faster flow of FDI to the South increases the rates of innovation …

investment (FDI) to address the concerns of developing nations that stronger intellectual property rights (IPR) protection would … relative to FDI. Stronger IPR protection displaces FDI due to aggravated resource scarcity in the South. Reduced FDI transmits …

The authors find that the role foreign direct investment (FDI) plays in international technology transfer (ITT) hinges … on whether substitute channels of ITT--such as imitation--exist for the host country. If FDI is the sole channel of ITT …, a faster flow of FDI to the South increases the rates of innovation, imitation, and ITT, so FDI generates dynamic …

Internalization advantage determines whether firms use foreign direct investment (FDI) or licensing to serve markets … multinational production increases the extent of FDI, the aggregate rate of innovation and the average magnitude of innovation. The … multinational firms due to the shift from licensing to FDI …

A developing country may attract foreign direct investment (FDI) for (1) technology transfer that increases local firm … profits or for (2) wage premiums that benefit workers. The two never occur together but if the country can attract FDI, it is … make FDI more attractive than exporting.Glass and Saggi construct an oligopoly model in which a multinational firm has a …

investment (FDI) are endogenously determined. In the model, a strengthening of IPR protection in the South reduces the rate of … imitation, which, in turn, increases the flow of FDI. The increase in FDI more than offsets the decline in production undertaken …

have an incentive to attract FDI, even when technology transfer will not result, due to the wage premium earned by … employees of the multinational firm. Also, FDI with technology transfer may reduce host welfare …

both regionally and multilaterally. Since firms compete in foreign markets via both exports and foreign direct investment(FDI …), the following question arises: can constraints on the use of only one type of policy (trade or FDI) induce firms to adopt … compete in the domestic market. In the model, the domestic government's trade and/or FDI policies as well as the foreign firm …