The competitive advantage of regions and nations : technology transfer through foreign direct investment / Boris Ricken, George Malcotsis.

By:

Ricken, Boris [author]

Contributor(s):

Malcotsis, George [author]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub. Co., 2011Description: xxii, 231 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781409402381 (hardback : alk. paper)
9781409402398 (ebk. : alk. paper)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

21 338.926 R.B.C

Contents:

Summary: Stresses that companies, investment promotion agencies, and government bodies cannot simply sit and wait until new technologies arrive in their domain; rather, they need to manage the identification, assessment, attraction, absorption and application of new technologies.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Main library A6	Faculty of Economics & Political (Economics)	338.926 R.B.C (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		00009208

Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-227) and index.

Contents: Preface; Introduction; Part I Theoretical Foundations: Understanding technology; The importance of technology; Theories of technology transfer; Foreign direct investment; FDI and technology transfer. Part II Practical Process: An overview on the practical process of technology transfer; Developing a technology strategy; Gathering information on technologies; Technology assessment; Technology attraction; Technology absorption; Technology application; Performance measurement; Integrated case-studies; Summary and conclusions; References; Index.

Stresses that companies, investment promotion agencies, and government bodies cannot simply sit and wait until new technologies arrive in their domain; rather, they need to manage the identification, assessment, attraction, absorption and application of new technologies.

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