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Global Value Chains, Technology Transfer and Local Firm Upgrading in Non-OECD Countries

Brach, Juliane; Kappel, Robert - 2009

Wertschöpfungsketten, Technologietransfer und Kompetenzerweiterung lokaler Unternehmen in Nicht-OECD Ländern. Die … bedeutendsten Kanäle für Technologietransfer. Ausgehend von sowohl der Innovations- und Wachstumsforschung, als auch der …

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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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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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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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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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Drivers for international innovation activities in developed and emerging countries

Schmiele, Anja - 2009

This paper aims to shed light on firm specific drivers that lead firms to internationalise their innovation activities. The paper draws a comprehensive picture of driving forces by including firm capabilities, characteristics of the firm’s competitive environment and the influence of...

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The management of human resources in the Asia Pacific: Into the 21st century

Rowley, Chris; Warner, Malcolm - In: Management Revue 18 (2007) 4, pp. 374-391

In this introduction, we look at the management of human resources in the Asia Pacific region. We start with an …

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Developing Asia's Sovereign Wealth Funds and Outward Foreign Direct Investment

Park, Donghyun; Estrada, Gemma - 2009

Sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) have emerged in developing Asia as a policy response to an unprecedented accumulation of … sensitivity of state-led FDI severely constrains the ability of developing Asia's SWFs to undertake FDI on a significant scale …. Therefore, the potential for developing Asia's SWFs to become major sources of outward FDI is more apparent than real. This …

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Saving, Investment, and Current Account Surplus in Developing Asia

Park, Donghyun; Shin, Kwanho - 2009

Asia has run since the 1997–1998 Asian crisis. A country's current account surplus is, by definition, equal to its net …

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