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Determinants of Firms’ External Technology Selection

From the Perspective of Technology Country Attributes

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Firms’ external technology acquisition is affected by many factors. However, few kinds of literature have studied determinants based on the perspective of technology country attributes. This paper, based on unique data matching data of patent licensing and Chinese industrial enterprises, intends to identify where to find external technologies (home or abroad) and using a logit model to empirically study the influencing factors of the country selection of external technology from three aspects, which are technology characteristics, firm characteristics and external environment characteristics.

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This research was supported by the Research Innovation Fund for Postgraduate of Sichuan University (grant number: 2018YJSY037).

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  1. Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610064, China

    Ruifeng Hu & Yuandi Wang

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  1. The University of Aizu, Aizuwakamatsu, Japan

    Yong Liu

  2. School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore

    Lipo Wang

  3. Computer Science and Mathematics, University of Sao Paulo, Ribeirao Preto, Brazil

    Liang Zhao

  4. School of Information Engineering and Automation, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, China

    Zhengtao Yu

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Hu, R., Wang, Y. (2020). Determinants of Firms’ External Technology Selection. In: Liu, Y., Wang, L., Zhao, L., Yu, Z. (eds) Advances in Natural Computation, Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery. ICNC-FSKD 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1075. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32591-6_59

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