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Time-Cost Tradeoffs: Elasticity Estimates And Determinants For International Technology Transfer Projects

In: The Transfer And Licensing Of Know-How And Intellectual Property Understanding the Multinational Enterprise in the Modern World

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This paper postulates and tests for a time-cost tradeoff during the establishment of manufacturing plants abroad based on U.S. technology. Data on twenty international projects are used to estimate negatively sloped tradeoff functions for which time-cost elasticities are subsequently calculated. The determinants of these elasticities are then analyzed and shown to bear some similarities with the determinants of time-cost tradeoffs in technological innovation. The elasticity measurements were higher for projects where the technology had not been previously commercialized, for large-scale projects, and for projects carried out by the larger firms.

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  • David Teece, 2008. "Time-Cost Tradeoffs: Elasticity Estimates And Determinants For International Technology Transfer Projects," World Scientific Book Chapters, in: The Transfer And Licensing Of Know-How And Intellectual Property Understanding the Multinational Enterprise in the Modern World, chapter 2, pages 23-30, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..
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