in recent decades, foreign direct investment (fdi) has played a vital role in economic growth of developed and developing countries. fdi brings new capital and technology to the host country beside a possibility of spillover to local firms. hence, fdi is considered as an important channel of technology transfer. however, in empirical studies, the size and direction of effects of fdi on producti...

Background. The sports industry plays an important role in the progress of the economy in developed countries. The role of technology is remarkable in the enhancement of the economy. Objectives. The present study investigates the effects of technology spillover on the economic growth of Iran’s sports industry through the import of intermediate and capital goods for the period from 1...

This paper presents a new perspective that there is a double-threshold effect in terms of the technology gap existing in the foreign direct investment (FDI) technology spillover process in different regional Chinese industrial sectors. In this paper, a double-threshold regression model was established to examine the relation between the threshold effect of the technology gap and technology spil...

Through an industry-level analysis of Chinese largeand medium-size manufacturing enterprises over the period of 1996–2001, this article investigates the direct and interactive contributions of four technology acquisition channels to industry performances in terms of innovation performance and productivity. These channels include in-house R&D, foreign technology transfer, domestic technology tra...

Due to the reform and opening-up policy, China has become one of the most attractive recipients of FDI, attributing a lot to the economic boom in the last three decades. The inflow of foreign investment has not only brought a package of capital, management expertise and production technology but also significantly spurred industrial development through technology spillover. Such a diffusion eff...

It has been argued by economists that foreign direct investment (FDI) can promote economic growth in recipients countries, via the capital accumulation effect and the technology spillover effect. However due to the endogeneity of FDI, previous empirical literature on FDI has not convincingly established the causal effects from FDI to economic growth, in particular the technology spillover. This...

This study distinguishes multinational firm (MNE) technology-spillover from learning effects. Whenever learning takes time, the model predicts that foreign investors deduct the economic value of learning from wages of inexperienced workers and add it to experienced ones to prevent them from moving to local competitors. Hence, the national wage bill is unaffected by the presence of MNEs. In cont...

Fi rms in the LDCs need to adopt and indige n i ze tra n s fe rred tech n o l ogy befo re u s age. The adoption costs depend on the state of the infra s t ru c t u re and on the l o c a l i zed spillover effects ge n e rated by a rival fi rm. In this context, the pap e r examines the timing of such technological adoption. It shows that strategic decisions regarding time may result in a “waiting...

generally, developing countries are not able to invest enough on r&d; therefore, they try to get benefit from knowledge spillover, as an external r&d.; this paper tries to investigate the impact of r&d; expenditures and imported intermediate goods, as a proxy for technology imports, on value added of iranian industries. to that end, we use a panel data set of iranian two-digit isic manufacturin...

This study examines the spillover effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) on green technology progress rate (as measured by the green total factor productivity). The analysis utilizes two measures of FDI, labor-based FDI and capital-based FDI, and separately investigates four sets of industry classifications-high/low discharge regulation and high/low emission standard regulation. The results...