International trade, foreign direct investment, and technology spillovers

Handbook of the Economics of Innovation

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 793-829

  Keller, Wolfgang ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c CEPR   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Absorptive capacity; Exports; Gravity; Horizontal foreign direct investment; Imports; Learning byexporting; Multinational affiliates; Multinational parents; Patents; Research and development expenditures; Tacit knowledge; Technology diffusion; Technology transfer; Vertical foreign direct investment

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960343974     PISSN: 22108807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-7218(10)02003-4     Document Type: Chapter

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