Backward FDI linkages as a channel for transferring technology and building innovation capability: the case of Slovenia

Bučar, Maja (author), Rojec, Matija (author), Stare, Metka (author)

Backward linkages of foreign subsidiaries with their local suppliers prove to be one of the main channels of knowledge spillovers via foreign direct investment. This paper analyses the potential of backward linkages of foreign subsidiaries in Slovenia for the transfer of technology and for the innovationcapability-building of their local suppliers. Based on a survey of foreign subsidiaries in Slovenia, we aim to investigate the mechanisms of knowledge spillovers via linkages of foreign subsidiaries with local suppliersin Slovenia. This enables us to trace the development of the technological and organizational capability of local suppliers in order to meet the growing demands made by foreign subsidiaries. This firm-level analysis is complemented with an analysis of the national innovation policy tosee whether the measures introduced to support innovation are in fact helping local business to improve its technological capability and are thus providing additional stimuli for innovation

• Language: English
• Work type: Not categorized
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
• Year: 2009
• Number of pages: Str. 137-153
• Numbering: Vol. 21, no. 1
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-44944
• UDC: 3
• ISSN on article: 0957-8811
• COBISS.SI-ID: 28142429
• Publication date in RUL: 10.07.2015

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• Title: #The #European journal of development research
• Shortened title: Eur. j. dev. res.
• Publisher: Palgrave
• ISSN: 0957-8811
• COBISS.SI-ID: 26798848