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Measuring industry agglomeration and identifying the driving forces
Howard, Emma; Newman, Carol; Tarp, Finn - 2012
Understanding industry agglomeration and its driving forces is critical for the formulation of industrial policy in developing countries. Crucial to this process is the definition and measurement of agglomeration. We propose a new measure and examine what it reveals about the importance of...
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Foreign Direct Investment, Local Small and Medium Enterprises and Technology Transfer in Developing Countries : A Story from Indonesia
Tambunan, Tulus - 2008
(inside the firm) or can be fostered through access to external sources, including from foreign direct investment (FDI). This … study aims to examine how important is the presence of FDI for local SMEs with respect to transfer of technology in …
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On Semi-Industrialized Countries and the Acquisition of Technological Capabilities
Teitel, Simon - 2009
The last decades have witnessed a breaking down of the hitherto quasimonopoly in industrial and technological development by highly industrialized countries. Man-made changes in comparative advantage due to rapid accumulation of human capital, development of technical institutions, and public...
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Threshold effects of technology import on industrial employment : a panel smooth transition regression approach
Bouattour, Afef; Kalai, Maha; Helali, Kamel - In: Journal of economic structures : JES; the official … 13 (2024), pp. 1-33
The relationship between imported technology and employment is a controversial issue. This study aims to test the hypothesis that the relationship between imported technology and employment is non-linear and evolves with the level of technology imports. The study covers two groups of developed...
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The Role of International Business in Clean Technology Transfer and Development
Kolk, Ans - 2013
While research has generated useful very insights, usually at the macro level, regarding the multi-faceted nature of environmental innovation and regulation, the characteristics and drivers peculiar to international companies have remained underexposed in the policy-related literature on clean...
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Institutions, foreign direct investment, and domestic investment : Crowding out or crowding in?
Farla, Kristine; Crombrugghe, Denis de; Verspagen, Bart - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 88 (2016), pp. 1-9
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Firm-Level Productivity Spillovers from FDI in Latin American Countries
Mühlen, Henning - 2013
Foreign direct investment (FDI) projects are assumed to be accompanied by potential external effects – so-called FDI …-level panel data from ten Latin American (developing) countries in order to estimate the spillover effects from FDI on firms … a tendency that the presence of FDI in a sector (region) has a negative (positive) impact …
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Firm-level productivity spillovers from FDI in Latin American countries
Mühlen, Henning - 2013
Foreign direct investment (FDI) projects are assumed to be accompanied by potential external effects - so-called FDI …-level panel data from ten Latin American (developing) countries in order to estimate the spillover effects from FDI on firms … a tendency that the presence of FDI in a sector (region) has a negative (positive) impact. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011947819
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US Foreign Affiliates, Technology Diffusion and Host Country Human Development : Human Development Index versus Human Capital
Elmawazini, Khaled - 2016
In this study, we use a cross-sectionally correlated and timewise autoregressive model and panel data for the period 1966-2000 to investigate human development as a measure of host country absorptive capacity in 30 developed and developing countries. The results suggest that technology diffusion...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012999171
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A touch of sophistication : FDI and unit values of exports
Harding, Torfinn; Javorcik, Beata K. Smarzynska - 2009
many countries. This study presents evidence suggesting that attracting inflows of FDI offers potential for upgrading a … sectors treated by investment promotion agencies as priority in their efforts to attract FDI. The sample covers 116 countries … over the period 1984-2000. The findings are consistent with a positive effect of FDI on unit values of exports in …
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