This paper examines two sources of global knowledge spillovers: foreign direct investments and trade. Empirical evidence demonstrates that foreign direct investment and trade can contribute to overall domestic productivity growth only when the technology gap between domestic and foreign firms is not too large and when a sufficient absorptive capacity is available in domestic firms. The paper proposes the terms research and development and labor quality...
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2012/01/01
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Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques
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WPS5931
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2012/01/01
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Innovative and absorptive capacity of international knowledge : an empirical analysis of productivity sources in Latin American countries
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productivity spillovers