Global Integration and Technology Transfer (World Bank Trade & Development Series) - Softcover

"The importance of international technology diffusion (ITD) for economic development can hardly be overstated. Both the acquisition of technology and its diffusion foster productivity growth. Developing countries have long sought to use both national policies and international agreements to stimulate ITD. The 'correct' policy intervention, if any, depends critically upon the channels through which technology diffuses internationally and the quantitative effects of the various diffusion processes on efficiency and productivity growth. Neither is well understood. New technologies may be embodied in goods and transferred through imports of new varieties of differentiated products or capital goods and equipment, they may be obtained through exposure to foreign buyers or foreign investors or they may be acquired through arms-length trade in intellectual property, e.g., licensing contracts. 'Global Integration and Technology Transfer' uses cross-country and firm level panel data sets to analyze how specific activities-exporting, importing, FDI, joint ventures-impact on productivity performance."

SIMEON DJANKOV World Bank, USA AART KRAAY World Bank, USA DANIEL LEDERMAN World Bank, USA WILLIAM F. MALONEY World Bank, USA GIORGIO BARBA NAVARETTI Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy HOWARD PACK The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, USA KAMAL SAGGI Southern Methodist University, USA MAURICE SCHIFF World Bank, USA L. SERVEN World Bank, USA ISIDRO SOLOAGA Universidad de las Americas, Puebla, Mexico JAMES TYBOUT Penn State University, USA YANLING WANG The Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University, USA