Is foreign direct investment a channel of knowledge spillovers? Evidence from Japan's FDI in the United States

By Lee G. Branstetter. 2006

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management

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Entrepreneurship, export orientation, and economic growth (2011, background): “This might be particularly challenging though, since research indicates that low-intensity exporters are likely to remain lowintensity exporters and that high-intensity exporters are likely to remain high-intensity exporters (Brooks 2006; Moen 2002).”
Ethnic Scientific Communities and International Technology Diffusion (2007, background): “Branstetter 2006, Singh 2004).”
Foreign ownership and productivity: new evidence from the service sector and the R&D lab (2004, background): “mediating flows of knowledge between countries. Branstetter (2003) and Iwasi and Odagiri”
Trading Away Wide Brands for Cheap Brands (2011, background): “Yeaple (2005), Bustos (2009) and Lileeva and Trefler (2010) show higher scale from exports is positively associated with better technologies.”
Multinational Enterprises, International Trade, and Productivity Growth: Firm-Level Evidence from the United States (2003, positive): “7 Among the other studies are Baldwin, Braconier and Forslid (1999), Keller (2002b), and Xu (2000) who find some evidence consistent with FDI spillovers using industry-level data, as well as Branstetter (2000) who shows that FDI between the U.S. and Japan is associated with higher knowledge flows as”
Global Collaborative Patents (2018, positive): “We also connect closely with the careful study of Branstetter et al. (2015) on the important role of cross-border co-invention teams among multinationals as a factor behind the rise of patenting in China and India (explaining, at times, the majority of patenting observed in these locations). Branste”
Knowledge spillovers through human mobility across national borders: Evidence from Zhongguancun Science Park in China (2011, background): “Intensive studies have examined the impact of FDI-related spillovers on productivity and innovation of local firms (Hejazi and Safarian, 1999; Chuang and Hsu, 2004; Branstetter, 2006; Wei and Liu, 2006; Liu and Buck, 2007).”
How Do Foreign Institutional Investors Enhance Firm Innovation? (2017, neutral): “5 There are a number of factors that affect knowledge spillovers, such as the mobility of highly skilled human capital (Agrawal, Cockburn, and McHale (2006)), international trade and foreign direct investment (Branstetter (2006)), and geographic location (Keller (2002)).”
The impact of knowledge spillovers and innovation on firm-performance: findings from the Balkans countries (2017, background): “Foreign direct investments (FDI) are considered as a channel of knowledge spillovers, both from investing firms to indigenous firms and from indigenous firms to investing firms (Branstetter 2006).”