FDI Policies and Catching-Up

Eleonora Santos and Shahed Khan

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Abstract: The dynamic effects of Foreign Direct Investment in Portugal allowed for a structural shift in exports towards technology-intensive activities. However, since 2000, several factors, largely triggered by the global financial crisis, led to a drop in industrial output along with a reduction in FDI attraction. This paper assesses the efficacy of the Investment Promoting policies to stimulate innovation and promote the absorptive capacity at national level, by analysing the relationship between FDI inward flows and a set of innovation and absorptive capacity indicators. Results show that the gap between Portugal and the EU-28 average is far from being closed. Rather than being an automatic process triggered by foreign presence, we suggest that the convergence based on the productivity, can be assisted by a reinforcement of supply-side measures, and the coordination between the industrial policy and the instruments of the Investment Promotion Policy, in strategic industries.

Keywords: Industrial Policy; Productivity; Investment Promotion Policies; Innovation; Convergence; Technological Gap (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F15 F23 O11 O33 O40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-10
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cse, nep-fdg, nep-ino and nep-int
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