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International technology transfer policies
Andrenelli, Andrea; Gourdon, Julien; Moïsé, Evdokia - 2019
Concerns are growing about policies and measures that restrict market access with the effect of “forcing” technology transfer. Efforts to target forced technology transfer are complicated by the sometimes blurred line between voluntary and mutually agreed upon technology transfers and that...
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International technology transfer measures in an interconnected world : lessons and policy implications
Kowalski, Przemyslaw; Rabaioli, Daniel; Vallejo, Sebastian - 2017
The aim of this paper is to inform the ongoing debate on the policies being used to encourage international technology transfer (ITT) and, of these, which have the potential to distort trade or investment and which may effectively promote ITT. The paper develops a first-cut approach to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011779413
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FDI policies and catching-up
Santos, Eleonora; Khan, Shahed - 2019
The dynamic effects of Foreign Direct Investment in Portugal allowed for a structural shift in exports towards technology-intensive activities. However, since 2000, several factors, largely triggered by the global financial crisis, led to a drop in industrial output along with a reduction in FDI...
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Public policies, innovation and convergence
Santos, Eleonora; Khan, Shahed - 2018
Since the mid-twentieth century, the Portuguese economy converged vis-à-vis with the EU average, due to backwardness advantages. At the same time, the dynamic effects of Foreign Direct Investment allowed for a structural shift in exports towards technology-intensive activities. However, in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011953713
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Essays on offshoring, wage inequality and innovation
Benz, Sebastian - 2014
chapter compares the impact of international trade in intermediate inputs (offshoring) on wage inequality in two distinct but … similar frameworks. In the first framework the profitability of offshoring is based on increasing returns to scale on the task …-level, whereas the second framework relies on differences in relative factor endowments of the two countries involved in offshoring …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011742945
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Essays on offshoring, wage inequality and innovation
Benz, Sebastian - 2014
chapter compares the impact of international trade in intermediate inputs (offshoring) on wage inequality in two distinct but … similar frameworks. In the first framework the profitability of offshoring is based on increasing returns to scale on the task …-level, whereas the second framework relies on differences in relative factor endowments of the two countries involved in offshoring …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010395778
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The effects of production offshoring on R&D and innovation in the home country
Dachs, Bernhard; Ebersberger, Bernd - 2013
offshoring on R&D and innovation activities of the firm in the home country. The analysis is based on a dataset of more than 3000 … firms which have offshored production activities in a previous period to a control group of non-offshoring firms. The … analysis finds no negative effect of production offshoring on innovation and technological capabilities of firms in the home …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011392629
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The effects of production offshoring on R&D and innovation in the home country
Dachs, Bernhard; Ebersberger, Bernd; Kinkel, Steffen; … - 2014
We investigate the effects of production offshoring on the innovation activities of manufacturing firms in the home … offshoring firms on average employ a higher share of R&D and design personnel, introduce new products more frequently to the … market, and invest more frequently in advanced process technologies compared to non-offshoring firms. Concerns that …
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Technology, profits and wages
Coveri, Andrea; Pianta, Mario - 2019
strategies of technological change and offshoring. We perform an industry-level analysis on 38 manufacturing and service sectors …, productivity growth and capital-labour conflict, with profits driven by product innovation and offshoring, and wages rising faster …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012123473
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The Effects of Production Offshoring on R&D and Innovation in the Home Country
Dachs, Bernhard; Ebersberger, Bernd; Kinkel, Steffen; … - 2013
This paper tests the assumption that offshoring of production activities leads to less innovation in the home country … offshoring firms employ more people in R&D and design, introduce more frequently new products, and invest more frequently in … advanced process technologies compared to non-offshoring firms. Concerns that offshoring may hurt innovation because of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014152427