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Internal R&D effort, external imported technology and economic value added: empirical study of Taiwan's electronic industry

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Technology innovation is a significant resource in the contemporary knowledge-based economy. The main sources of technology innovation are internal R&D effort and external imported technology. Two primary traditional production factors are physical capital and labour. The theoretical basis for this study is an evolutionary Cobb-Douglas production function explaining the effects of four resources (internal R&D effort, imported technology, physical capital and labour) on a firm's sales and economic value added (EVA). Time-series cross-section panel data from 219 Taiwan electronic manufacturers between 1990 and 2003 were employed for fixed effect model. Major empirical findings were observed in this study: first, Internal R&D effort can positively affect a firm's sales and EVA. Conversely, imported technology is found to have had no significant effect on sales and EVA. Second, although both physical capital and labour affect a firm's sales more than the effects of internal R&D and external imported technology, internal R&D effort contributes to a firm's EVA beyond the effects of imported technology, physical capital and labour. Third, External imported technology has neither a complementary nor a substitutive relationship with internal R&D effort.

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  • Chun-Yao Tseng, 2008. "Internal R&D effort, external imported technology and economic value added: empirical study of Taiwan's electronic industry," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 40(8), pages 1073-1082.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:applec:v:40:y:2008:i:8:p:1073-1082
    DOI: 10.1080/00036840600771163
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    1. Elena Shakina & Maria Molodchik, 2013. "Intangible-driven value creation: supporting and obstructing factors," HSE Working papers WP BRP 24/FE/2013, National Research University Higher School of Economics.
    2. Wei-Kang Wang & Wen-Min Lu & Qian Long Kweh & Mohammad Nourani & Rong-Suei Hong, 2021. "Interlocking directorates and dynamic corporate performance: the roles of centrality, structural holes and number of connections in social networks," Review of Managerial Science, Springer, vol. 15(2), pages 437-457, February.
    3. Yishu Wang & Xue Jiang & ZhenJia Liu & Weixing Wang, 2015. "Effect of Earnings Management on Economic Value Added: A China Study," Accounting and Finance Research, Sciedu Press, vol. 4(3), pages 1-9, August.
    4. Camelia Oprean-Stan & Sebastian Stan & Vasile Brătian, 2020. "Corporate Sustainability and Intangible Resources Binomial: New Proposal on Intangible Resources Recognition and Evaluation," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(10), pages 1-23, May.

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