Technology Transfer Within Multinational Firms and Its Impact on the Productivity of Scottish Subsidiaries

SILER P., WANG C. and LIU X. (2003) Technology transfer within multinational firms and its impact on the productivity of Scottish subsidiaries, Reg. Studies 37 , 15-25. This paper aims to examine the extent to which the technology generated in US parent firms is transferred to their Scottish affiliates in the form of productivity gains. Using a firm-level panel data set, the empirical results show that the labour productivity growth of Scottish...