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Foreign direct Investment and learning regions development in new EU member countries

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  • Geenhuizen, Marina van

    (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Econometrie (Free University Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics Sciences, Business Administration and Economitrics)

  • Nijkamp, Peter

Abstract

In this study we address the potential rise of innovative regions in Central and Eastern Europe by connecting the interests of foreign investors and the interests of recipient regions as learning regions. Our exploratory results give a rather pessimistic picture in that enhancing the innovative level of the regional economy seems limited to those cases where there is already an existing system of innovative suppliers in the region and where this system can be used within the strategy of the foreign investor. The preliminary observations indicate a need for a general policy to acquire and absorb new knowledge, as well as targeted policy measures to benefit from foreign direct investment in terms of knowledge spillovers info the regional economy.

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  • Geenhuizen, Marina van & Nijkamp, Peter, 2004. "Foreign direct Investment and learning regions development in new EU member countries," Serie Research Memoranda 0007, VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Econometrics.
    • Handle: RePEc:vua:wpaper:2004-7
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    Keywords

    Innovation; Foreign direct investment; Regions;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • F21 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - International Investment; Long-Term Capital Movements
    • R12 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity; Interregional Trade (economic geography)
    • O18 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure

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