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1 online resource (366) |
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Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- 1 Lessons from Empirical Research on International Technology Diffusion through Trade and Foreign Direct Investment -- Part I LITERATURE SURVEYS -- 2 Econometric versus Case Study Approaches to Technology Transfer -- 3 Foreign Direct Investment, Linkages, and Technology Spillovers -- 4 Plant- and Firm-Level Evidence on "New" Trade Theories -- Part II FOREIGN TRADE AND PRODUCTIVITY -- 5 On the Quantity and Quality of Knowledge: The Impact of Openness and Foreign R & D on North-North and North-South Technology Spillovers -- 6 The Knowledge Content of Machines: North-South Trade and Technology Diffusion -- 7 Exports and Economic Performance: Evidence from a Panel of Chinese Enterprises -- Part III FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT, TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER, AND PRODUCTIVITY -- 8 Foreign Investment and Productivity Growth in Czech Enterprises -- 9 Technological Leadership and the Choice of Entry Mode by Foreign Investors -- 10 Does Foreign Direct Investment Increase the Productivity of Domestic Firms? In Search of Spillovers through Backward Linkages -- 11 Product Quality, Productive Efficiency, and International Technology Diffusion: Evidence from Plant-Level Panel Data -- 12 Market Discipline and Corporate Efficiency: Evidence from Bulgaria -- 13 Innovation in Mexico: NAFTA Is Not Enough -- Index -- Figures -- 1.1 Perceived Effects of FDI in the Czech Republic and Latvia -- 6.1 Average Unit Values in Select Countries, 1989 ... 97 -- 6D.1 Persistency of the Technology Gap with One-Year Lag -- 6D.2 Persistency of the Technology Gap with Two-Year Lag -- 6D.3 Persistency of the Technology Gap with Seven-Year Lag -- 8.1 Labor Productivity of Czech Firms with and without Foreign Partners, 1991 -- 8.2 Total Factor Productivity Growth in Czech Firms with and without Foreign Partners, 1992 ... 96 -- 8.3 Training and New Technology in Czech Firms with and without Foreign Partners -- 9.1 R & D Intensity and Probability of a Joint Venture: Case 1 -- 9.2 R & D Intensity and Probability of a Joint Venture: Case 2 -- 9.3 R & D Intensity and Probability of a Joint Venture: Case 3 -- 10.1 Net FDI Inflows to Lithuania, 1993 ... 2000 -- 10.2 Change in Horizontal Measure, 1996 ... 2000 -- 10.3 Change in Backward Measure, 1996 ... 2000 -- 10.4 Change in Forward Variable, 1996 ... 2000 -- 13.1 Growth Rates of Total Factor Productivity in Selected Countries and Regions, 1960 ... 99 -- 13.2 Patents per Million Workers in Selected Regions, 1960 ... 2000 -- 13.3 Number of Scientific Publications and Patents in Mexico Relative to Comparative Countries, 1960 ... 2000 -- 13.4 Ratio of R & D to GDP in Selected Countries -- 13.5 Innovation Inputs in Mexico -- 13.6 Efficiency of Research and Development in Selected Countries, 1985 ... 2000 -- 13.7 IRCA Index in Selected Industries and Countries, 1980 ... 2000 -- 13.8 Private Sector Perceptions of Quality of Scientific Institutions and University ... Private Sector Collaboration, Selected Countries, 1994 ... 2001 -- Tables -- 2.1 Technological Capabilities in Manufacturing Industry -- 5.1 Determinants of Total Factor Productivity in OECD Countries -- 5.2 Determinants of Total Factory Productivity in Developing Countries -- 6.1 Determinants of Total Factor Productivity -- 6.2 Choice of Technology -- 6A.1 Matching between Machines and Products -- 6C.1 Description and Source of Data for Variabl |
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The importance of international technology diffusion (ITD) for economic development can hardly be overstated. Both the acquisition of technology and its diffusion foster productivity growth. Developing countries have long sought to use both national policies and international agreements to stimulate ITD. The correct policy intervention, if any, depends critically upon the channels through which technology diffuses internationally and the quantitative effects of the various diffusion processes on efficiency and productivity growth. Neither is well understood. New technologies may be embodied in goods and transferred through imports of new varieties of differentiated products or capital goods and equipment, they may be obtained through exposure to foreign buyers or foreign investors or they may be acquired through arms-length trade in intellectual property, e.g., licensing contracts. Global Integration and Technology Transfer uses cross-country and firm level panel data sets to analyze how specific activities, exporting, importing, FDI, joint ventures impact on productivity performance |
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International economic integration.
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International trade.
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Investments, Foreign -- Developing countries
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Technology transfer -- Economic aspects -- Developing countries
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Industrial productivity -- Effect of technological innovations on -- Developing countries
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Industrial productivity -- Effect of technological innovations on.
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International economic integration.
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International trade.
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Investments, Foreign.
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Technology transfer -- Economic aspects.
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Developing countries.
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Electronic book
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Hoekman, Bernard M.
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Smarzynska Javorcik, Beata.
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