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Knowledge Spillovers from Foreign Direct Invesments – Czech Case Study

Authors: Rouag Abdelwalid | Stejskal Jan

Year: 2015

Type of publication: ostatní - článek ve sborníku

Name of source: Proceedings from Congres ERSA 2015

Publisher name: European Regional Science Association (ERSA)

Place: Louvain-la-Neuve

Page from-to: 1-13

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Language	Name	Abstract	Keywords
eng	Knowledge Spillovers from Foreign Direct Invesments – Czech Case Study	In recent years it has increasingly recognized in the literature that spillovers of knowledge from external sources may have an important impact on innovation processes and economic development as an important issue in recent approaches to growth theory and innovation systems. In this context, the foreign direct investments (FDI) spillovers are probably the most extensively analyzed channel of knowledge spillovers. Scholars as well as policy makers increasingly treat FDI spillovers as very or the most important development effect for host country. The aim of this paper is to examine the role FDI and absorptive capacity play in mediating knowledge spillovers at the regional level of the Czech Republic. Following the aim of this work, we assume first, that the inflow of FDI in the fourteen regions of the Czech Republic plays a key role in the diffusion of knowledge. Second, the absorptive capacity in the form of expenditure and labor in R&D highly determines the extent to what FDI diffuses knowledge and technology in the Czech Republic.	knowledge spillovers;FDI;absorptive capacity;Czech republik;case study

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