The role of FDI, R&D accumulation and trade in transfering technology to transition countries: Evidence from firm panel data for eight transition countries

Economic Systems

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 189-204

  Damijan, Jože P ^a   Knell, Mark ^b   Majcen, Boris ^a   Rojec, Matija ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Foreign direct investments; Spillovers; Technology transfer; Transition economies

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042843631     PISSN: 09393625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0939-3625(03)00039-6     Document Type: Article

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