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Strategic Intellectual Property Rights Policy and North-South Technology Transfer

Naghavi, Alireza - 2005

This paper analyzes welfare implications of protecting intellectual property rights (IPR) in the framework of TRIPS for developing countries (South) through its impact on innovation, market structure and technology transfer. In a North-South trade environment, the South sets its IPR policy...

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The Role of the Intellectual Property Rights Regime for Foreign Investors in Post-Socialist Economies

Schnellbächer, Benedikt; Stephan, Johannes - 2009

We integrate international business theory on foreign direct investment (FDI) with institutional theory on intellectual property rights (IPR) to explain characteristics and behaviour of foreign investment subsidiaries in Central East Europe, a region with an IPR regimegap visàvis West European...

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Multinationals, tax holidays, and technology transfer

Miyagiwa, Kaz; Ohno, Yuka - 2008

Host country governments often grant investment incentives to foreign firms locating in their territories. We show that such preferential treatment of foreign firms can facilitate transfer of foreign technology, induce entry by the local firm, and increase host country welfare. However, this...

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Technology Transfer to Foreign Affiliates by Multinational Enterprises Technology Transfer to Foreign Affiliates by Multinational Enterprises

Fors, Gunnar - 1996

This paper examines whether Swedish multinational enterprises transfer R&D-generated knowledge to their foreign affiliates. The empirical results suggest that such technology transfer takes place from parent companies to affiliates, especially in the case of newly established affiliates. In...

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Avenues of technology transfer: Foreign investment and productivity change in the Czech Republic

Djankov, Simeon; Hoekman, Bernard Marco - 1998

Firm-level data for the Czech Republic during 1992-96 suggest that foreign investment has tended to flow to firms of above average size, initial profitability and initial labor productivity. After controlling for this selection bias, we find that foreign investment has a positive, but...

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FDI and superstar spillovers: Evidence from firm-to-firm transactions

Amiti, Mary; Duprez, Cédric; Konings, Jozef; Van … - 2023

Despite competition concerns over the increasing dominance of global corporations, many argue that productivity spillovers from multinationals to domestic firms justify pro-FDI policies. For the first time, we use firm-to-firm transaction data in a developed country to examine the impact of...

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Technology transfer and the restructuring of new market economies: The case of Poland

Kubielas, Stanis±aw - 1996

The paper is an attempt to generalise some empirical evidence on the relationships between technology transfer and structural adjustment in the new market economies in Central and Eastern Europe. The Polish experience in 1989-1995 is selected as a point of reference. It is argued that ten...

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Local R&D and technology transfers: A Comparative Analysis of foreign and local firms in Indian Industries

Aggarwal, Aradhna - 2016

in India, using a panel dataset of 2000 odd Bombay Stock Exchange listed firms for the period from 2003 to 2014 drawn … by them as defined under the Companies' Act of India. A comparative analysis of domestic and different categories of …

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Limited growth opportunities amidst opportunities for growth: An empirical study of the inter-firm linkages of small software firms in India

Ilavarasan, Vigneswara P.; Parthasarathy, Balaji - In: Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship 1 (2012), pp. 1-12

India, the world's largest exporter of software services, to explore the extent to which large software firms, both foreign …, the growth opportunities for small software firms in India remain circumscribed. …

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Japan's Foreign Direct Investment Experiences in India: Lessons Learnt from Firm Level Surveys

Choudhury, Srabani Roy - 2009

Ever since India decided to globalize, concentrated effort was made to attract Japanese participation through foreign … Japanese companies. The companies that were studied are YKK, Honda Siel Pvt. Ltd, Sona Koyo Steering, Kyocera Wireless India … Ltd, Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation PTA India (MCC PTA), Toyota Kirloskar Motor Ltd, Satake India Engineering Ltd and …

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