Moving skills from hands to heads: Does importing technology affect export performance in textiles?

Research Policy

Volumn 33, Issue 6-7, 2004, Pages 879-895

  Navaretti, Giorgio Barba ^a,b   Galeotti, Marzio ^a,b,c   Mattozzi, Andrea ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b Centro Studi Luca d'Agliano   (Italy)

^c FONDAZIONE ENI ENRICO MATTEI   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Export performance; Regional integration; Technology imports; Textile industry

Indexed keywords

INTEGRATION; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MACHINERY; MARKETING; PERFORMANCE; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; REGIONAL PLANNING; TEXTILE INDUSTRY;

EXPORT PERFORMANCE; REGIONAL INTEGRATION; TECHNOLOGY IMPORTS; TRADE PATTERNS;

TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 3242888591     PISSN: 00487333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2004.01.014     Document Type: Article

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