Efectele investiţiilor străine directe asupra tehnologizării ţării gazdă
Autor (i): Asist univ. drd. Lucia-Ramona Popa
Cuvinte cheie: foreign investment, technology, externalization, transnational, efficiency
Abstract:
Romania’s economy was affected after 1989 by the drastic decrease of production in all sectors, making a dramatic effort to adapt the productive capacity and workforce peculiar to a centralized economy to the requirements of a market economy. The specialists consider that one of the most important contribution to the direct foreign investment is the transfer of technology either through internalization (transfer to branches), or through externalization (franchise, licensing, technical assistance, etc.).
In comparison with externalization, the internalization of technology through DFI is faster and cheaper, thus assuring the access to all technical, organizational assets and to transnational company abilities. Practice has proved that the technological transfer made by foreign companies is greater when the TNC have as a major objective the increase of efficiency, the best example being given by the sector of car production, as TNC had in view the development of new centres of regional production with a high efficiency, based on lower production costs. For Romania it is the case of Dacia - Renault and Ford Romania.