Direct Foreign Investment, Technology Transfer, and Industrial Development — The Case of Electronics Industry in Taiwan

Frank Hsiao and Mei-Chu Wang Hsiao

Chapter 10 in Economic Development of Taiwan:Early Experiences and the Pacific Trade Triangle, 2015, pp 425-443 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: Direct foreign investment (DFI) contributes to the growth of economic activities in the host country. More important, direct foreign investment is considered as a major channel to bring technological know-how to the host country, creating backward and forward linkages which stimulate local development of industry (Lall, 1978; Sekiguchi, 1979; Hsiao and Hsiao, 1984). In this paper, we will first survey the general features of DFI in Taiwan in Section 9.1, followed by measuring the effect of DFI on the Taiwanese economy in Section 9.2. We will also study the difference of the effects of the American DFI and the Japanese DFI in Taiwan…

Keywords: Economic Development; Taiwan; Colonial Linkages; Pacific Trade Triangle; Political and Cultural Changes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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