Closing the EU East-West Productivity Gap:Foreign Direct Investment, Competitiveness and Public Policy

David A Dyker
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David A Dyker: University of Sussex, UK

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Abstract: A product of the Framework V research project, this book addresses one of the key problems facing the EU today: Why is the ‘new’ EU so much poorer than the ‘old’, and how will EU enlargement help to solve the problem? Focusing on the productivity problems underlying the East-West gap, it looks in particular at the role that foreign investment and R&D can play in closing it. Against that background, the book assesses what role proactive development policy might play in attacking the roots of low social productivity. Concluding that there will be a clear-cut process of convergence between East and West, albeit an incomplete one, it finishes with an assessment of the patterns of competitiveness, East and West, that are likely to emerge from this process of incomplete convergence.

Keywords: Central-East Europe; Foreign Direct Investment; Competitiveness; EU; East-West Productivity Gap (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
ISBN: 9781860946295
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 INTRODUCTION: PRODUCTIVITY AND SOCIAL CAPABILITY — A HISTORICAL AND ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK , pp 1-17

David A. Dyker and Leonardo Iacovone

Ch 2 IDENTIFYING THE CHANNELS AND MECHANICS OF FDI-INDUCED TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER , pp 19-33

David A. Dyker, Leonardo Iacovone and Cordula Stolberg

Ch 3 ANALYZING FDI IN CENTRAL-EAST EUROPE ON THE BASIS OF SAMPLE SURVEYS , pp 35-69

Boris Majcen, Slavo Radosevic and Matija Rojec

Ch 4 ANALYZING FDI IN CENTRAL-EAST EUROPE THROUGH CASE STUDIES , pp 71-91

David A. Dyker, Katie Higginbottom, Neils Kofoed and Cordula Stolberg

Ch 5 CHECKING THE RESULTS OF THE CASE STUDY INTERVIEWS— AN ESSAY IN TRIANGULATION , pp 93-133

Leonardo Iacovone and Neils Kofoed

Ch 6 DOMESTIC INNOVATION CAPACITY—CAN CEE GOVERNMENTS CORRECT FDI-DRIVEN TRENDS THROUGH R&D POLICY? , pp 135-151

Slavo Radosevic

Ch 7 CAN EU POLICY INTERVENTION HELP PRODUCTIVITY CATCH-UP? , pp 153-196

Peter Holmes, Javier Lopez-Gonzales, Johannes Stefan and Cordula Stolberg

Ch 8 SUMMING-UP: PRODUCTIVITY CATCH-UP AND INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIVENESS , pp 197-204

David A. Dyker

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