Foreign direct investment and technology spillovers in the Turkish manufacturing industry

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Pamukcu, Mehmet Teoman
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Technology spillovers from foreign to domestic firms in emerging economies are considered to be the most important channel through which Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) influence the host economy. Empirical evidence about the existence, magnitude and direction of FDI-related spillovers in these countries is contradictory pointingto the necessity of conducting more econometric studies using firm-level data. We conduct an econometric analysis to assess the impact of FDI-related horizontal technology spillovers on output growth of domestic firmsin the Turkish manufacturing industry over 2003-2006. Whena broad definition of foreign ownership is adopted,our findings suggest that horizontal spillovers occur from foreign to local firms in the sectorof activity. Export-oriented firms do notbenefit from these spillovers in contrast to firmsproducing mainly for the domestic market. However, when foreign ownership is defined according to whether the minority or majority of capital is detained by the foreign partner, horizontal spillovers seem to originate from foreign firms with majority or full foreign ownership while no such effect is associated with minority-owned foreign firms.
Turkey, Horizontal spillovers, Knowledge spillovers, Technology spillovers, Productivity, Foreign ownership, Multinational corporations, Foreign Direct Investment(FDI)
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/85876
Science and Technology Policy Research Center (TEKPOL), Book / Book chapter

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M. T. Pamukcu, Foreign direct investment and technology spillovers in the Turkish manufacturing industry . 2013, p. 51.
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