Conclusions Drawn from the Latest Research: Lessons, Limits and New Research Trends

Björn Jindra

Chapter 4 in Technology Transfer via Foreign Direct Investment in Central and Eastern Europe, 2006, pp 72-74 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract We have reviewed theory and evidence about the relationship between inward FDI and technology transfer in the transition countries. The focus was on technology transfer as a microeconomic phenomenon so the research concentrated on direct technology transfer from the MNC to the foreign subsidiary and external effects from the foreign subsidiary to domestic firms in the host economy. In our analysis we distinguished between direct, horizontal, vertical (backward, forward), and regional effects and outlined a number of explicit technology transfer channels via inward FDI taken from the theoretical literature. We proposed a new classification of determinants into host country-, industry-, MNC- and subsidiary-specific factors, according to the type of technology transfer.

Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Host Country; Technology Transfer; Research Trend; Transition Country (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230524484_4

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