Technology Spillovers from Foreign Direct Investment (FDI): an Exploration of the Active Role of MNC Subsidiaries in the Case of Argentina in the 1990s
Technology Spillovers from Foreign Direct Investment (FDI): an Exploration of the Active Role of MNC Subsidiaries in the Case of Argentina in the 1990s
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外商直接投资 (FDI) 的技术溢出：以 20 世纪 90 年代阿根廷为例探讨跨国公司子公司的积极作用
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2004
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M. Bell
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A. Marin;M. Bell
关于外国直接投资的技术溢出效应，通常的观点认为跨国公司的子公司是一个被动的行为者。它假定，在东道国经济中从子公司传播到其他公司的技术优势最初是由跨国公司母公司在东道国之外创造的，并通过国际技术转让传递给子公司。子公司的作用只不过是在技术转让管道和国内公司吸收溢出效应之间充当一个“漏水”容器。本文提出了一种不同的模式，其中很大一部分的溢出潜力是在当地的子公司，由于自己的知识创造和积累的活动，在东道国经济。我们实证研究这些活动对FDI技术溢出效应的影响，使用的数据在阿根廷的工业企业在1992-1996年期间。分析表明，将子公司自身的技术活动作为溢出过程的解释变量，可以获得显着的结果。
The usual perspective on technology spillovers from FDI sees the MNC subsidiary as a passive actor. It presumes that the technological superiority that spreads from subsidiaries to other firms in the host economy is initially created outside it by MNC parent companies, and is delivered to subsidiaries via international technology transfer. The role of subsidiaries is little more than to act as a ‘leaky’ container lying between the technology transfer pipeline and the absorption of spillovers by domestic firms. This paper suggests a different model in which a substantial part of the potential for spillover is created within local subsidiaries as a result of their own knowledge-creating and accumulating activities in the host economy. We explore empirically the effects of these activities on technology spillovers from FDI using data for industrial firms in Argentina over the period 1992-1996. The analysis suggests that significant results can be obtained incorporating subsidiaries’ own technological activities as an explanatory variable of the spillover process.