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Technology sourcing versus technology exploitation : an analysis of US foreign direct investment flows

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Love, James H. (2003) Technology sourcing versus technology exploitation : an analysis of US foreign direct investment flows. Applied Economics, Volume 35 (Number 15). pp. 1667-1678. doi:10.1080/0003684032000125060 ISSN 0003-6846.

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Abstract

The traditional paradigm of foreign direct investment (FDI) suggests that FDI is undertaken principally to exploit some firm-specific advantage in a foreign country which provides a locational advantage to the investor. However, recent theoretical work suggests a model of FDI in which the motivation is not to exploit existing technological advantages in a foreign country, but to access such technology and transfer it from the host economy to the investing multinational corporation via spillover effects. This paper tests the technology sourcing versus technology exploiting hypotheses for a panel of sectoral FDI flows between the United States and major OECD nations over a 15 year period. The research makes use of Patel and Vega’s (Research Policy, 28, 145–55, 1999) taxonomy of sectors which are likely a priori to exhibit technology sourcing and exploiting behaviour respectively. While there is evidence that FDI flows into the United States are attracted to R&D intensive sectors, very little support is found for the technology sourcing hypothesis either for inward or outward FDI flows. The results suggest that, in aggregate, firm-specific ‘ownership’ effects remain powerful determinants of FDI flows.

Item Type: Journal Article
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Strategy & International Business
Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School
Journal or Publication Title: Applied Economics
Publisher: Routledge
ISSN: 0003-6846
Official Date: June 2003
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June 2003Published
Volume: Volume 35
Number: Number 15
Page Range: pp. 1667-1678
DOI: 10.1080/0003684032000125060
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
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