Does foreign direct investment drive technological upgrading?

World Development

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1543-1554

  Kemeny, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion; Innovation; Knowledge spillovers; Social capability; Technology

Indexed keywords

CAPITAL FLOW; FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT; INNOVATION; SPILLOVER EFFECT; TECHNOLOGY DIFFUSION;

EID: 77957308455     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2010.03.001     Document Type: Article

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