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 …

This paper examines the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on domestic innovation based on a data set covering … show that there is a negative horizontal spillover effect of FDI on domestic innovation when the intellectual property … on why developing countries should encourage FDI and strengthen the IPR regime together to enhance domestic innovation …

This paper is intended to provide policymakers with an overview of how technology and knowledge flow at the regional …