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| Author: | Bertschek, I. |
| Title: | Product and process innovation as a response to increasing imports and foreign direct investment |
| Journal: | Journal of Industrial Relations
1995 : DEC, VOL. 43:4, p. 341-358 |
| Index terms: | INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS INNOVATION FOREIGN INVESTMENT |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | The paper analyses the hypotheses that imports and inward foreign direct investment (FDI) have positive effects on the innovative activity of domestic firms because competition on the domestic market is thereby increased, and domestic firms have to perform more efficiently to maintain their market position. Chamberlain's random effects probit approach may account for individual heterogeneity depending on exogenous variables is used to analyze a panel data set containing 1270 firms of the German manufacturing industry from 1984 to 1988. |
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