R&D and Technology Transfer: Firm-Level Evidence from Chinese Industry
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- 1 November 2005
- journal article
- Published by MIT Press in The Review of Economics and Statistics
- Vol. 87 (4), 780-786
- https://doi.org/10.1162/003465305775098143
Abstract
In bridging the technology gap with the OECD nations, developing economies have access to three avenues of technological advance: domestic R&D, technology transfer, and foreign direct investment. This paper examines the contributions of each of these avenues, as well as their interactions, to productivity within Chinese industry. Based on a large data set for China's large and medium-size enterprises, the estimation results show that in-house R&D significantly complements technology transfer-whether of domestic or foreign origin. Foreign direct investment, which we assume is an important channel of proprietary technology transfer, does not facilitate the transfer of market-mediated foreign technology. © 2005 President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.Keywords
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