“The Modern Multinational Corporation & Technological Upgrading in Recipient Countries: New policy Opportunities for Developing Countries”

ANABEL MARIN

SciDev.Net Policy Briefs

Lugar: London; Año: 2007 p. 1 - 6

Foreign direct investment has long been sought by developing countries as a way of upgrading local technological capabilities. This brief outlines two policy approaches that can be adopted by developing countries. By far the dominant approach aims to affect MNCs decisions about how much and which kinds of centrally created technology to transfer to host developing countries. The other, focuses on the subsidiaries as the main drivers of FDI-related technological effects