Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Gachino, Geoffrey
Author-Email: gachino@merit.unu.edu
Author-Workplace-Name: UNU-MERIT
Title: Technological spillovers from multinational presence - Towards a
	 conceptual framework
Abstract: This paper undertakes a critical review of existing spillover analyses 
	 and proposes a unique analytical framework for examining technological 
	 spillovers in a manufacturing industry setting. The proposed framework 
	 overlaps three different literature strands; cluster and network 
	 dynamics, technological innovations; and spillover literature. It 
	 enables determination of the extent to which multinational presence in 
	 a host country stimulates spillover occurrence to local firms as well 
	 as their nature. Using this framework, the kind and the channels 
	 through which spillovers occur most can be equally determined - this 
	 is particularly relevant for policy intervention in a technically 
	 backward country. Lastly, it allows determination of factors and 
	 conditions under which spillovers from multinationals occur.
Classification-JEL: O33, F23, D83, D85, O31
Keywords: International Economic Relations, Technology Transfer, Learning, Network 
	 Dynamics, Capability Building, Technological Change, Multinational Enterprises
Series: UNU-MERIT Working Papers
Creation-Date: 2007
Number: 017
File-URL: http://www.merit.unu.edu/publications/wppdf/2007/wp2007-017.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 275 Kb
Handle: RePEc:unm:unumer:2007017