Clustering of Foreign Direct Investment and Enhanced Technology Transfer: Evidence from Hong Kong Garment Firms in China |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States;2. Center of Excellence for Stress and Mental Health (CESAMH), Veteran’s Administration, San Diego, CA, United States;3. Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States;1. School of Economics and Management, North China Electric Power Univ., Beijing, China;2. Beijing Key Laboratory of New Energy and Low-Carbon Development (North China Electric Power University), Changping, Beijing, 102206, China |
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| Abstract: | Separately, both foreign direct investment (FDI) and industry clusters have each received considerable and growing attention in development literature. Each is broadly thought to affect economic growth positively through facilitation of knowledge and technology transfers. But FDI and industry clusters in conjunction have not hitherto been empirically considered specifically with regard to such transfers. This paper does so by examining the proposition that FDI within geographical industry clusters should transfer technology more than FDI that is geographically dispersed. Data are drawn from a quantitative survey of Hong Kong garment firms with manufacturing investments in Mainland China. Clustered FDI is shown to be significantly better than dispersed FDI at transferring technology in certain respects, implying that industry cluster and FDI policies should be considered in tandem rather than separately if developmental benefits from both are to be optimized. |
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