Global Integration and Technology Transfer

by UK, Palgrave Macmillan; Hoekman, Bernard M.; Smarzynska Javorcik, Beata

• ISBN13: 9780821361252
• ISBN10: 0821361252
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-04-27
• Publisher: World Bank Publications

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Foreword	xi
Acknowledgments	xv
Contributors	xvii
Abbreviations and Acronyms	xix
1 Lessons from Empirical Research on International Technology Diffusion through Trade and Foreign Direct Investment	1
Bernard Hoekman and Beata Smarzynska Javorcik
Part I LITERATURE SURVEYS
2 Econometric versus Case Study Approaches to Technology Transfer	29	(22)
Howard Pack
3 Foreign Direct Investment, Linkages, and Technology Spillovers	51	(16)
Kamal Saggi
4 Plant- and Firm-Level Evidence on "New" Trade Theories	67	(32)
James R. Tybout
Part II FOREIGN TRADE AND PRODUCTIVITY
5 On the Quantity and Quality of Knowledge: The Impact of Openness and Foreign R&D on North-North and North-South Technology Spillovers	99	(14)
Maurice Schiff and Yanling Wang
6 The Knowledge Content of Machines: North-South Trade and Technology Diffusion	113	(26)
Giorgio Barba Navaretti, Maurice Schiff, and Isidro Soloaga
7 Exports and Economic Performance: Evidence from a Panel of Chinese Enterprises	139	(22)
Aart Kraay
Part III FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT, TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER, AND PRODUCTIVITY
8 Foreign Investment and Productivity Growth in Czech Enterprises	161	(18)
Simeon Djankov and Bernard Hoekman
9 Technological Leadership and the Choice of Entry Mode by Foreign Investors	179	(28)
Beata Smarzynska Javorcik
10 Does Foreign Direct Investment Increase the Productivity of Domestic Firms? In Search of Spillovers through Backward Linkages	207	(34)
Beata Smarzynska Javorcik
11 Product Quality, Productive Efficiency, and International Technology Diffusion: Evidence from Plant-Level Panel Data	241	(40)
Aart Kraay, Isidro Soloaga, and James R. Tybout
12 Market Discipline and Corporate Efficiency: Evidence from Bulgaria	281	(24)
Simeon Djankov and Bernard Hoekman
13 Innovation in Mexico: NAFTA Is Not Enough	305	(34)
Daniel Lederman and William F. Maloney
Index	339