INVESTISSEMENTS DIRECTS ETRANGERS, DIFFUSION TECHNOLOGIQUE ET CONCENTRATION SPATIALE DANS LES PAYS EN DEVELOPPEMENT

Maurice Catin, Stéphane Ghio and Christophe van Huffel ()
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Maurice Catin: CRERI, Université de Toulon et du Var
Stéphane Ghio: CRERI, Université de Toulon et du Var

Region et Developpement, 2002, vol. 16, 55-83

Abstract: The establishment of multinational firms in the technological sector may have different effects on growth and on the location where domestic firms choose to set up in a developing country, depending on whether linkage effects or the effects of competition prevail. This theoretical model, inspired by Krugman and Livas-Elizondo (1996) and extended by Catin, Ghio and Van Huffel (2001), tries to account for the specific role of the (local and/or interregional) spread of knowledge and of the domestic country's absorption capacity of new technologies. The model shows that after a tendency to polarization in the first stages of development, centrifugal forces are largely determined by the intensity of knowledge externalities.

Keywords: PAYS EN DEVELOPPEMENT; FIRMES MULTINATIONALES; EXTERNALITES DE CONNAISSANCE; REPARTITION SPATIALE DES ACTIVITES (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F12 F23 O18 O32 R12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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