Technology transfers, foreign investment and productivity spillovers: evidence from Vietnam
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Technology transfers, foreign investment and productivity spillovers: evidence from Vietnam. / Newman, Carol ; Rand, John; Talbot, Theodore Purdendu; Tarp, Finn.
Dublin : Institute for International Integration Studies, Trinity College Dublin, 2014.Publikation: Working paper › Forskning
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T1 - Technology transfers, foreign investment and productivity spillovers: evidence from Vietnam
AU - Newman, Carol
AU - Rand, John
AU - Talbot, Theodore Purdendu
AU - Tarp, Finn
N1 - JEL Classification: D22, F21, O12, O3
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - This paper provides new evidence on the relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and the productivity of domestic firms. Using a specially designed survey on a sample of over 7,500 manufacturing firms in Vietnam we uncover some of the mechanisms that explain productivity spillovers from FDI through vertical linkages along the supply chain. Our results suggest that domestic firms experience more productivity spillovers through forward linkages from foreign-input suppliers to domestic input users than through backward linkages from foreign customers to domestic producers of inputs. Productivity externalities from upstream sectors are associated with joint venture foreign investors while downstream sectors experience direct technology transfers from upstream wholly foreign owned investors. Spillovers from FDI through backward linkages are also detected but only when competition from imported intermediates is controlled for and are associated with innovations and technology investments made by firms.
AB - This paper provides new evidence on the relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) and the productivity of domestic firms. Using a specially designed survey on a sample of over 7,500 manufacturing firms in Vietnam we uncover some of the mechanisms that explain productivity spillovers from FDI through vertical linkages along the supply chain. Our results suggest that domestic firms experience more productivity spillovers through forward linkages from foreign-input suppliers to domestic input users than through backward linkages from foreign customers to domestic producers of inputs. Productivity externalities from upstream sectors are associated with joint venture foreign investors while downstream sectors experience direct technology transfers from upstream wholly foreign owned investors. Spillovers from FDI through backward linkages are also detected but only when competition from imported intermediates is controlled for and are associated with innovations and technology investments made by firms.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - Foreign direct investment
KW - productivity spillovers
KW - technology transfers
KW - absorptive capacity
KW - Vietnam
M3 - Working paper
T3 - IIIS Discussion Paper
BT - Technology transfers, foreign investment and productivity spillovers: evidence from Vietnam
PB - Institute for International Integration Studies, Trinity College Dublin
CY - Dublin
ER -
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