Foreign Technology Transfers in China

2021 ◽  
pp. 414-440
Author(s):  
Xiaolan Fu ◽  
Jun Hou
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
Global Value Chain ◽  
Foreign Technology ◽  
Knowledge Sources ◽  
Stage Of Development ◽  
Technology Transfers ◽  
Catching Up ◽  
Complementary Effect ◽  
Indigenous Innovation

Innovation can be achieved via various channels, and the effectiveness of each channel depends on the stage of development as well as the local social-economic settings. Based on the concept that innovation is not only limited to invention but also characterized as a learning and adopting process, this chapter discusses the important role of foreign technology sources in China’s innovation path. Different types of foreign knowledge sources are reviewed, including trade, technology licensing, inward and outward foreign direct investment (FDI), internationalization of research and development (R&D), global value chain, and returnees. The discussion highlights the complementary effect between foreign knowledge sources and indigenous innovation efforts in fostering technological upgrading in China. To maximize the benefits from innovation and accelerate catching up, the explicit and well-focused encouragement of indigenous innovation and acquisitions of foreign knowledge must work in parallel.

Technological Revolutions, Structural Change, and Catching up

2021 ◽  
pp. 131-155
Author(s):  
Jan Fagerberg ◽  
Bart Verspagen
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Structural Change ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Foreign Technology ◽  
Technological Revolution ◽  
The Past ◽  
Catching Up

This chapter interprets the transition to a more sustainable type of growth as a technological revolution in progress. The chapter opens with a general discussion of the role of technological revolutions and structural change and economic growth, with special emphasis on the acquisition of foreign technology, exports, and catching-up-based growth. It then goes on to examine whether the transition to renewable energy can be seen as a technological revolution in line with the great technological revolutions of the past. The answer to this question is in the affirmative. The final section discusses the implications of this for catching-up-based growth in China and other developing countries.

scholarly journals Drivers and Benefits of Enhancing Participation in Global Value Chains: Lessons for India

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabyasachi Mitra
Keyword(s):  
Labor Productivity ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Economic Consequences ◽  
Value Chains ◽  
Global Value Chain ◽  
Employment Opportunities ◽  
Potential Development ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
Development Outcomes

Enhancing participation in global value chain (GVCs) can facilitate development outcomes that India strives to achieve, including generating productive employment opportunities, increasing labor productivity, and gaining a larger share of global exports. This paper draws from the Asian Development Bank’s Multiregional Input–Output Database and highlights the role of various drivers of GVCs participation across primary, manufacturing, and services sectors. It also evaluates the drivers and economic consequences of participating in different segments of GVCs, which can apply to India’s potential development outcomes. Results of the study indicate increasing GVC participation can positively impact the economy and contribute to raising per capita income, labor productivity, investment, and exports.

scholarly journals The role of foreign technologies and R&D in innovation processes within catching-up CEE countries

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. e0250307
Author(s):  
Viktor Prokop ◽  
Jan Stejskal ◽  
Viktorie Klimova ◽  
Vladimir Zitek
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Knowledge Sources ◽  
External Knowledge ◽  
Catching Up ◽  
Model Combining ◽  
Staged Model ◽  
Internal And External Factors ◽  
Enterprise Survey

Prior research showed that there is a growing consensus among researchers, which point out a key role of external knowledge sources such as external R&D and technologies in enhancing firms´ innovation. However, firms´ from catching-up Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries have already shown in the past that their innovation models differ from those applied, for example, in Western Europe. This study therefore introduces a novel two-staged model combining artificial neural networks and random forests to reveal the importance of internal and external factors influencing firms´ innovation performance in the case of 3,361 firms from six catching-up CEE countries (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania), by using the World Banks´ Enterprise Survey data from 2019. We confirm the hypothesis that innovators in the catching-up CEE countries depend more on internal knowledge sources and, moreover, that participation in the firms groups represents an important factor of firms´ innovation. Surprisingly, we reject the hypothesis that foreign technologies are a crucial source of external knowledge. This study contributes to the theories of open innovation and absorptive capacity in the context of selected CEE countries and provides several practical implications for firms.

scholarly journals Resilience Decoded: The Role of Firms, Global Value Chains, and the State in COVID-19 Medical Supplies

2022 ◽  
pp. 000812562110694
Author(s):  
Gary Gereffi ◽  
Pavida Pananond ◽  
Torben Pedersen
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Value Chains ◽  
Global Value Chain ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Supply Chain Disruptions ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
Medical Supplies ◽  
Future Supply

This article examines the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on resilience. Resilience is not a one-dimensional concept but has different meanings at the levels of the firm (operational efficiency), the global value chain (appropriate governance), and the nation-state (national security). It illustrates resilience dynamics through lessons from case studies of four medical supply products—rubber gloves, face masks, ventilators, and vaccines. It explores how each adjusted to disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and presents key strategies that can guide managers and policymakers in building resilience for future supply chain disruptions.

Chasing Foreign Capital

2018 ◽  
pp. 22-47
Author(s):  
Ling Chen
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
National Level ◽  
Foreign Firms ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Global Value Chain ◽  
City Governments ◽  
Foreign Investors ◽  
Fdi Attraction

This chapter examines the rise of the FDI-attraction paradigm at the national level and the emergence of local investment-seeking states in the 1990s. It explores in detail the varied strategies that city governments employed to attract foreign investors to launch the campaign of FDI attraction, ranging from tax cuts and land and utility discounts to industrial zone establishments. At one end of the strategic continuum are local governments that prioritized large, leading multinationals that have been playing the role of the “dragon’s head” at the top of the global value chain, whereas, on the other end are cities where bureaucrats brokered deals with small-scale foreign firms established by “guerilla investors” at the bottom of the value chain through flexible arrangements.

scholarly journals The Role of the Global Value Chain in New Competitive Environments: The Case of Mature Industries

2014 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Jose Albors-Garrigós ◽  
Blanca de Miguel-Molina ◽  
Maria de Miguel-Molina
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
Global Value Chain ◽  
Competitive Environments
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