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Outside the USA little empirical work has been done to assess the impact of technology transfers on the economic performance of transferring countries. The following considerations are concerned with the transfer of technology by German firms.
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Koopmann, G., Matthies, K. Transfer of technology by German firms. Intereconomics 14, 237–242 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02924567
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