The Impact of FDI on Innovation and Networking Activity in Central and Eastern Europe Preliminary Draft

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Meyborg, Mirja
Copyright Year	2010
Abstract	Since the fall of the Iron Curtain, the Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) experience a considerable increase in their foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows. As it is obvious that they made significant steps forward in attracting foreign capital over the last two decades, it is now interesting to make a statement about FDI-related technological diffusion effects. Moreover, apart from this, by means of Social Network Analysis (SNA), the role of the CEECs within the innovation network is examined. Both analyses are conducted for ten CEECs which are further divided into two groups; the first one (group 1) consists of Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Slovenia, and the second one (group 2) encompasses Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Romania. The results of the first analysis show that FDI has a significant positive impact on innovation activities for both groups. However, the findings show that the role of knowledge and experts, represented by employees in R&D and expenditures on human resources, still play a more important role within group 1. Besides, the results of the SNA demonstrate that some CEECs are already involved in close network collaborations, partially bridging clusters, and hence, spreading information around the network; this finding accounts especially for Hungary and Poland of group 1, and Bulgaria and Romania of group 2.
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