Encadenamientos industriales y la derrama tecnológica de la inversión extranjera directa

this investigation is centered in the study of foreign direct investment technological spillovers and its impact on mexican manufacturer industry by means of the productive backward linkages. we aim to analyze if the presence of foreign capital and the coefficient of imports of the buyers branches have an effect on the domestic supplying firms, using data for the period from 1994 to 2002. this result of this analysis points out that the branches that had technological spillovers effects from fdi were few. for this reason this effects didn't extended to the rest of the industry manufacturer.