Multinational corporations as channels for international technology transfer: evidence from the South African innovation survey
SOURCE: South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2015
TITLE AUTHOR(S): N.Mustapha, P.Mendi
KEYWORDS: INNOVATION, KNOWLEDGE ERA, KNOWLEDGE SHARING, RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT (R&D), TECHNOLOGY
DEPARTMENT: Centre for Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators (CESTII)
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 8536
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/9010
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/9010
OUTPUT TYPE: Journal Article
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2015
TITLE AUTHOR(S): N.Mustapha, P.Mendi
KEYWORDS: INNOVATION, KNOWLEDGE ERA, KNOWLEDGE SHARING, RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT (R&D), TECHNOLOGY
DEPARTMENT: Centre for Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators (CESTII)
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 8536
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/9010
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/9010
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Abstract
In this article, we investigate the importance of South African subsidiaries of foreign multinationals as channels to introduce foreign innovations in the South African market. We use firm-level data from the 2008 wave of the South African Innovation Survey, which covers the period 2005-07. We find that subsidiaries of foreign multinationals are significantly more likely to introduce product and process innovations, as well as foreign new products and processes than domestic firms. However, we also find that they are not more likely to introduce foreign innovations developed in collaboration with or mostly by another firm outside their own multinational, or innovations that are new to the South African market.-
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