Openness and Technological Innovations in Developing Countries: Evidence from Firm-Level Surveys

By Rita Almeida, A. Fernandes. 2006

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Abstract This paper examines international technology transfers using firm-level data across 43 developing countries. Its findings show that exporting and importing activities are important channels for the transfer of technology. Majority foreign-owned firms are less likely to engage in technological innovations than minority foreign-owned firms or domestic firms. The authors interpret this finding as evidence that the technology transferred from multinational parents to majority-owned subsidiaries is more mature than that transferred to minority-owned subsidiaries. Their findings also suggest that foreign-owned subsidiaries rely mostly on the direct transfer of technology from their parents and that firms that import intermediate inputs are more likely to acquire new technology from their machinery suppliers.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management

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Trade and Growth at Different Stages of Economic Development (2009, background): “…(1997), and Baldwin et al. (2005), for example, increased international trade facilitates the diffusion of knowledge and technology from direct imports of high-tech goods (Almeida and Fernandes, 2008), from greater interaction with the sources of innovation, or from foreign direct investment.”
Trade Liberalization and Poverty: What Have We Learned in a Decade? (2014, background): “Almeida & Fernandes (2008) associate trade with technology transfers in a large sample of developing countries.”
Innovative Firms or Innovative Owners? Determinants of Innovation in Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (2009, background): “Firms which export are more likely to innovate (Almeida and Fernandes, 2006).”
Learning-by-Exporting: What We Know and What We Would Like to Know (2012, background): “Almeida and Fernandes (2007) focus on the importance of trade as a technology transmitter, by considering that importers can improve their technology by incorporating imported capital goods or inputs not available domestically; they also consider that exporters can be more innovative as they intera”
A multilevel analysis of innovation in developing countries (2008, positive): “Similarly Almeida and Fernandes (2008) did not account for these effects, even though the hierarchical nature of the data clearly called for doing so.”
Trade openness, income levels, and economic growth: The case of developing countries, 1970–2009 (2015, background): “…allowing the former to acquire foreign exchange through exports, but also most importantly through the access to intermediate and high-tech goods via imports, which facilitate the diffusion of knowledge and technology (see Grossman and Helpman 1990, 1991; Rodrik 1999; Almeida and Fernandes 2008).”
The Creation and Diffusion of Innovation in Developing Countries : A Systematic Literature Review (2016, positive): “Using firm-level data across 43 developing countries, Almeida and Fernandes (2008) found a strong positive correlation between openness and technology adoption.”
The impact of trade openness on economic growth: The case of Cote d’Ivoire (2017, background): “This is the case when the country specializes in sectors where research and development activities are not the core ones (Almeida & Fernandes, 2008).”
Did the global financial crisis impact firms' innovation performance? The role of internal and external knowledge capabilities in high and low tech industries (2018, neutral): “Industry R&D levels positively affect innovativeness (Van Beers and Zand, 2014); high-tech sectors take advantage of innovation opportunities compared to traditional industries (Almeida and Fernandes, 2008).”
Trade, technology and skills: evidence from Turkish microdata (2011, background): “…change is one of the determinants of the increase in the relative demand for skilled workers within DCs. engaged in the creation of new technologies, most simply imitate or adapt existing production techniques to local conditions (Evenson and Westphal, 1995; Almeida and Fernandes, 2007).”
Has the Internet Fostered Inclusive Innovation in the Developing World (2016, methodology): “The WBES have been widely used, including in Almeida and Fernandes (2008), Beck et al.”
Firm Productivity and Exports: Evidence from Ethiopian Manufacturing (2009, background): “Firms which enter the international market are also more likely to acquire new technology, which in turn contributes to productivity improvements (Almeida and Fernandes, 2008). The two hypotheses are thus by no means mutually exclusive: high-productivity firms, that can afford the extra cost of entr”