Global Integration and Technology Transfer

by Palgrave Macmillan UK, Bernard M. Hoekman (Editor), Beata Smarzynska Javorcik (Editor)

Overview

The importance of international technology diffusion (ITD) for economic development can hardly be overstated. Both the acquisition of technology and its diffusion foster productivity growth. Developing countries have long sought to use both national policies and international agreements to stimulate ITD. The 'correct' policy intervention, if any, depends critically upon the channels through which technology diffuses internationally and the quantitative effects of the various diffusion processes on efficiency and productivity growth. Neither is well understood. New technologies may be embodied in goods and transferred through imports of new varieties of differentiated products or capital goods and equipment, they may be obtained through exposure to foreign buyers or foreign investors or they may be acquired through arms-length trade in intellectual property, e.g., licensing contracts. 'Global Integration and Technology Transfer' uses cross-country and firm level panel data sets to analyze how specific activities—exporting, importing, FDI, joint ventures—impact on productivity performance.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780821361252
Publisher:	World Bank Publications
Publication date:	04/27/2006
Series:	Trade and Development
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

SIMEON DJANKOV World Bank, USA AART KRAAY World Bank, USA DANIEL LEDERMAN World Bank, USA WILLIAM F. MALONEY World Bank, USA GIORGIO BARBA NAVARETTI Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy HOWARD PACK The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, USA KAMAL SAGGI Southern Methodist University, USA MAURICE SCHIFF World Bank, USA L. SERVEN World Bank, USA ISIDRO SOLOAGA Universidad de las Americas, Puebla, Mexico JAMES TYBOUT Penn State University, USA YANLING WANG The Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University, USA"

Table of Contents

Introduction; B.M.Hoekman & B.Smarzynska Javorcik PART 1: LITERATURE SURVEYS Modes of Technology Transfer at the Firm Level; H.Pack Foreign Direct Investment, Linkages, and Technology Spillovers; K.Saggi Plant- and Firm-Level Evidence on 'New' Trade Theories; J.Tybout PART 2: FOREIGN TRADE AND PRODUCTIVITY On the Quantity and Quality of Knowledge Diffusion: The Impact of Openness and Foreign R&D on North-North and North-South R&D Spillovers; M.Schiff & Y.Wang The Knowledge-Content of Machines: A New View on North-South Trade and Technology Diffusion; G.B.Navaretti, M.Schiff & I.Soloaga Exports and Economic Performance: Evidence from a Panel of Chinese Enterprises; A.Kraay PART 3: FDI, TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER AND PRODUCTIVITY Foreign Investment and Productivity Growth in Czech Enterprises; S.Djankov & B.M.Hoekman Technological Leadership and the Choice of Entry Mode by Foreign Investors; B.Smarzynska Javorcik Does Foreign Direct Investment Increase the Productivity of Domestic Firms? In Search of Spillovers through Backward Linkages; B.Smarzynska Javorcik PART 4: INTERACTIONS AND COMPLEMENTARY POLICIES Product Quality, Productive Efficiency, and International Technology Diffusion: Evidence from Plant-Level Panel Data; A.Kraay, J.Tybout & I.Soloaga Market Discipline and Corporate Efficiency: Evidence from Bulgaria; S.Djankov & B.M.Hoekman Innovation in Mexico: NAFTA Is Not Enough; D.Lederman, W.F.Maloney & L.ServΘn