Determinants of innovative activities: Evidence from Europe and central Asia region

Lau, Chi Keung, Yang, Fu Steve, Zhang, Zhe and Leung, Vincent (2015) Determinants of innovative activities: Evidence from Europe and central Asia region. The Singapore Economic Review, 60 (1). p. 1550004. ISSN 0217-5908

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Abstract

Recent studies in the innovation literature show that Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) enhances innovations in recipient countries through spill-over effects. In this paper we extend the existing literature by incorporating the corruption index in the estimation procedure. Using a cross-country analysis from the Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region, covering 57 countries over the period of 1995–2010, we find no evidence of FDI spill-over effects on innovations, when corruption is endogenously modelled in the regression. Interestingly, we find that corruption and expenditure on education sector are positively related to the number of patents applications, suggesting anti-corruption programs encourage innovations that promote economic growth. Our study shed light on the national innovations and anti-corruption programs.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Foreign direct investment, corruption, innovation, technology transfer
Subjects:	L100 Economics N100 Business studies
Department:	Faculties > Business and Law > Newcastle Business School
Depositing User:	Chi Keung Lau
Date Deposited:	13 Mar 2015 16:21
Last Modified:	19 Nov 2019 09:50
URI:	http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/21591

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