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Technology Spillovers Through Foreign Direct Investment
Kinoshita, Yuko - 1999
I study the effects of technology spillovers ("catch-up") and a firm's investment in skills(training) on the firm's productivity when FDI (foreign direct investment) is a carrier of new technology. Using 1992 firm-level survey data in China, I test the investment equation proposed by Parente and...
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Long Run Effect of Technology Spillover Through FDI on Economic Growth : A Panel Cointegration Approach
Nadeem, Muhammad - 2010
The objective of this study is to achieve empirically the direct as well as indirect effect of FDI on economic growth for 30 developing countries from 1980 to 2004. For Indirect effect we will emphases on technology spillover through FDI and also conditional on infrastructure. Domestic...
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Technological trajectories and FDI : top bananas and underdogs
Santos, Eleonora; Khan, Shahed - 2018
Previous empirical evidence searching for externalities from Foreign Direct investment in Portugal showed mixed results. Using a new database containing 5,045 Portuguese manufacturing firms grouped by technological trajectories, we investigate the occurrence and magnitude of externalities from...
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Multinationals' Productivity Advantage : Scale or Technology?
Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger - 2015
The first aim of this paper is to decompose the productivity advantage of foreign multinationals into two components: the technology and scale effect. The second aim is to analyse the causal relationship between foreign ownership and these two components of productivity growth. We do so by...
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Intellectual Property Rights, FDI, R&D and Economic Growth : A Cross-Country Empirical Study
Liu, Wen-Hsien - 2017
This paper aims to empirically examine how intellectual property rights (IPRs) protection, foreign direct investment (FDI) and research and development (R&D), along with other possible variables, may affect the economic growth of the host country. By using the panel data of 92 countries during...
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Drivers of farm performance : empirical country case studies
Sauer, Johannes; Moreddu, Catherine - 2020
structure, innovation of operations, individual characteristics as well as farm location. Productivity performance by farm …
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R&D, embodied technological change and employment : evidence from Italian microdata
Barbieri, Laura; Piva, Mariacristina; Vivarelli, Marco - 2016
This paper explores the employment impact of innovation activity, taking into account both R&D expenditures and …-2010. The main outcome from the proposed fixed effect estimations is a labor-friendly nature of total innovation expenditures … ETC is included as a proxy for innovation activities. Moreover, the positive employment impacts of innovation activities …
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Innovation diffusion, technological convergence and economic growth
Andergassen, Rainer; Nardini, Franco; Ricottilli, Massimo - 2013
discovery and in the diffusion of a technological principle and their profit flow depends on how many firms adopt the innovation …
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Chapter 22. The Economics of Innovation and Technical Change in Agriculture
Pardey, Philip G.; Alston, Julian M.; Ruttan, Vernon W. - 2010
Innovation in agriculture differs from innovation elsewhere in the economy in several important ways. In this chapter … mean that the nature and extent of market failures in the provision of agricultural research and innovation differ from …. Informal innovation and technical discovery processes characterized agriculture from its beginnings some 10,000 years ago …
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Diffusion of technology and convergence of income among countries
Oz, Sumru - 2014 - Preliminary version; April 9, 2014
Theoretical models of growth reveal that either exogenous or endogenous, technology is the main driving force behind the long-run economic growth. Furthermore, in the endogenous growth framework, diffusion of technology is the basic mechanism of per capita income convergence among countries....
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