@article{5a4bc303881c409ca07e119edb837d5b,
title = "The impact of technology transfer and R & D on productivity growth in Taiwanese industry: Microeconometric analysis using plant and firm-level data",
abstract = "This paper conducts a comparative empirical analysis of the impact of R & D spending and purchases of foreign technology on output and productivity in Taiwanese industry. We employ data from two different sources, providing an econometric perspective on this question at two different levels of aggregation. We first conduct empirical analysis using data from the Taiwanese government's industrial census of technological activities at the plant level. This study is, to the best of our knowledge, the first empirical analysis using these data. We complement these results with analyses of data at the firm level. The results of our regression analyses generally support the conclusion that both R & D spending and purchases of foreign technology have contributed positively to Taiwanese productivity growth. J. Japanese Int. Economies 20 (2) (2006) 177-192.",
keywords = "Taiwan, Technological development, Technology imports",
author = "Lee Branstetter and Chen, {Jong Rong}",
note = "Funding Information: The authors wish to thank Bee Yan Aw, Robert Feenstra, F.M. Scherer, Yanrui Wu, and seminar participants at Academia Sinica and UC-Davis for helpful comments. We also acknowledge the financial support of the National Bureau of Economic Research, the University of California Industry—University Cooperative Research Program, and the OECD Science and Technology Directorate. Branstetter thanks the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership for additional financial support. We thank Hiau-Looi Kee and Chih-Hai Yang for research assistance. Finally, we are very grateful to the Ministry of Economic Affairs for providing us with much of the data used in this study. We note that this paper draws upon our earlier working paper, Branstetter and Chen (2000) . We are responsible for all errors.",
year = "2006",
month = jun,
doi = "10.1016/j.jjie.2005.11.001",
language = "???core.languages.en_GB???",
volume = "20",
pages = "177--192",
journal = "Journal of the Japanese and International Economies",
issn = "0889-1583",
number = "2",
}