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Friend or foe? : revealing R&D spillovers from FDI in Indonesia
Yasin, Mohammad Zeqi; Padilla, Miguel Angel Esquivias; … - In: Journal of open innovation : technology, market, and … 10 (2024) 1, pp. 1-12
The benefits of research and development (R&D) investment extend beyond the undertaking firms and may impact the wider economy through spillovers. This study examines the effect of Multinational Companies (MNCs)' R&D intra-industrial spillovers on total factor productivity (TFP) using firm-level...
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FDI policies and catching-up
Santos, Eleonora; Khan, Shahed - 2019
drop in industrial output along with a reduction in FDI attraction. This paper assesses the efficacy of the Investment … between FDI inward flows and a set of innovation and absorptive capacity indicators. Results show that the gap between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012061108
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Multinational Ownership and R&D Intensity : The Role of External Knowledge Sources and Spillovers
De Beule, Filip; Van Beveren, Ilke - 2009
This paper analyzes the drivers of multinational affiliates’ R&D intensity, using a unique dataset based on the fourth Community Innovation Survey for Belgium. Specifically, we investigate the role of foreign affiliates’ local (host country) embeddedness and of host country spillovers on...
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Does FDI Spur Innovation, Productivity and Knowledge Sourcing by Incumbent Firms? Evidence from Manufacturing Industry in Estonia
Vahter, Priit - 2010
Does FDI affect productivity growth, innovation, and knowledge sourcing activities of domestic firms? This study … employs detailed firm-level panel-data from Estonia's manufacturing sector to investigate different channels through which FDI … of FDI entry on local incumbents' TFP and labour productivity growth in the short term. The effect on productivity does …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013143826
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Does FDI Spur Innovation, Productivity and Knowledge Sourcing by Incumbent Firms? Evidence from Manufacturing Industry in Estonia
Vahter, Priit - 2010
Does FDI affect productivity growth, innovation, and knowledge sourcing activities of domestic firms? This study … employs detailed firm-level panel-data from Estonia’s manufacturing sector to investigate different channels through which FDI … of FDI entry on local incumbents’ TFP and labour productivity growth in the short term. The effect on productivity does …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014193027
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Does FDI Spur Innovation, Productivity and Knowledge Sourcing by Incumbent Firms? Evidence from Manufacturing Industry in Estonia
Vahter, Priit - 2010
Does FDI affect innovation, productivity growth, and knowledge sourcing activities of domestic firms? This study … employs detailed firm-level panel-data from Estonia’s manufacturing sector to investigate different channels through which FDI … effect of FDI entry on local incumbents’ TFP and labour productivity growth in the short term. However, there are positive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014195696
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The transmission of sectoral shocks across the innovation network
Fons-Rosen, Christian; Pu, Zhaoxin - 2020
Recent innovation literature has documented the benefits of cross-pollination of ideas across a wide set of industries and technology fields in an economy. Industrial and trade policies, by contrast, tend to favor economic specialization through the promotion of selected sectors. In this paper...
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Drivers of Innovation in the Industry and Services Sectors in Sub-Saharan Africa
Soubeiga, Sidiki - 2020
The paper investigated the drivers of innovation in the manufacturing, industry and services sectors of 20 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and found that (i) secondary education matters for value-added creation or innovation but the manufacturing and industry sectors need more and more...
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Demand forces of technical change evidence from the Chinese manufacturing industry : conference paper
Beerli, Andreas; Weiss, Franziska; Zilibotti, Fabrizio; … - 2013
This paper investigates the effect of market size on innovation activities across different durable good industries in the Chinese manufacturing sector. We use a potential market size measure driven only by changes in the Chinese income distribution which is exogenous to changes in prices and...
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Evidence on the Impact of R&D and ICT Investment on Innovation and Productivity in Italian Firms
Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2013
The paper investigates R&D and ICT investment at firm level, assessing their relative importance and the extent to which they are complements or substitutes. We use data on a large unbalanced panel sample from four consecutive waves of a survey of Italian manufacturing firms, together with a...
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