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What Fosters Innovation? A Cross­Sectional Panel Approach to Assessing the Impact of Cross Border Investment and Globalization on Patenting Across Global Economies

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2018-04-18
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Dessau, Michael
Vega, Nicholas
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Leachman, Lori
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This study considers the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on innovation in high income, upper­middle income and lower­middle income countries. Innovation matters because it is a critical factor for economic growth. In a panel setting, this study assesses the degree to which FDI functions as a vehicle for innovation as proxied by scaled local resident patent applications. This study considers research and development (R&D), domestic savings, imports and exports, and quality of governance as factors which could also impact the effectiveness of FDI on innovation. Our results suggest FDI is most effective as inward direct investment in countries outside the technological frontier possessing adequate existing domestic investment capital and R&D spending to convert foreign investment capital and technological spillover into innovation. Nonetheless, FDI was not a consistent indicator for innovation; rather, the most consistent indicators across this study were R&D and domestic savings. Differences amongst income groups are highlighted as well as their varying responses to our array of causal factors.
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Honors thesis
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Economics
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Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)
Innovation
Patents
Patent Applications
Institutions
Research and Development (R&D)
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https://hdl.handle.net/10161/16741
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Dessau, Michael; & Vega, Nicholas (2018). What Fosters Innovation? A Cross­Sectional Panel Approach to Assessing the Impact of Cross Border Investment and Globalization on Patenting Across Global Economies. Honors thesis, Duke University. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/16741.
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