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Technological Leadership and Foreign Investors' Choice of Entry Mode / Smarzynska, Beata
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- Author/Creator:
- Smarzynska, Beata
- Series:
- Policy research working papers.
- World Bank e-Library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Advertising.
- Agricultural Knowledge and Information Systems.
- Agriculture.
- Buyer.
- Debt Markets.
- E-Business.
- Emerging Markets.
- Finance and Financial Sector Development.
- Financial Literacy.
- Foreign Direct Investment.
- Foreign Investment.
- Foreign Investments.
- Industry.
- Information.
- Intangible Assets.
- International Economics & Trade.
- International Trade.
- Investment and Investment Climate.
- Joint Ventures.
- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth.
- Manufacturing.
- Manufacturing Industries.
- Marketing.
- Microfinance.
- New Technologies.
- Private Information.
- Private Sector Development.
- Profits.
- Proprietary Knowledge.
- R&D.
- Results.
- Rural Development.
- Technology.
- Technology Industry.
- Transactions.
- Water and Industry.
- Water Resources.
- Local Subjects:
- Advertising.
- Agricultural Knowledge and Information Systems.
- Agriculture.
- Buyer.
- Debt Markets.
- E-Business.
- Emerging Markets.
- Finance and Financial Sector Development.
- Financial Literacy.
- Foreign Direct Investment.
- Foreign Investment.
- Foreign Investments.
- Industry.
- Information.
- Intangible Assets.
- International Economics & Trade.
- International Trade.
- Investment and Investment Climate.
- Joint Ventures.
- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth.
- Manufacturing.
- Manufacturing Industries.
- Marketing.
- Microfinance.
- New Technologies.
- Private Information.
- Private Sector Development.
- Profits.
- Proprietary Knowledge.
- R&D.
- Results.
- Rural Development.
- Technology.
- Technology Industry.
- Transactions.
- Water and Industry.
- Water Resources.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (38 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C., The World Bank, 1999
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- April 2000 - Developing country governments tend to favor joint ventures over other forms of foreign direct investment, believing that local participation facilitates the transfer of technology and marketing skills. However, foreign investors who are technological or marketing leaders in their industries are more likely to invest in wholly owned projects than to share ownership. Thus in R&D-intensive sectors joint ventures may offer less potential for transferring technology and marketing techniques than wholly owned subsidiaries. Developing country governments tend to favor joint ventures over other forms of foreign direct investment, believing that local participation facilitates the transfer of technology and marketing skills. Smarzynska assesses joint ventures' potential for such transfers by comparing the characteristics of foreign investors engaged in joint ventures with those of foreign investors engaged in wholly owned projects in transition economies in the early 1990s. Unlike the existing literature, Smarzynska focuses on intra-industry differences rather than interindustry differences in R&D and advertising intensity. Empirical analysis shows that foreign investors who are technological or marketing leaders in their industries are more likely to invest in wholly owned projects than to share ownership. This is true in high- and medium-technology sectors but not in industries with low R&D spending. Smarzynska concludes that it is inappropriate to treat industries as homogeneous in investigating modes of investment. She also suggests that in sectors with high R&D spending joint ventures may present less potential for transfer of technology and marketing techniques than wholly owned subsidiaries. This paper - a product of Trade, Development Research Group - is part of a larger effort in the group to study the contribution of trade and foreign direct investment to technology transfer. The author may be contacted at bsmarzynska@worldbank.org
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