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..:: IKED projects related to FDI
IKED is engaged in several projects and studies on the effects of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) on recipient countries, and how they relate to domestic innovation capacity. The focus of this work is primarily directed to understanding the interplay between domestic institutions, competencies and resources, and the role played by FDI in national economies. Around the world, local conditions and policies are evolving, but still lag the faster shifts in international competition and strategies of Multinational Enterprises (MNEs).
Among recent projects, IKED prepared a study on behalf of the Invest in Sweden Agency (ISA), mapping international trends and the emerging issues from the perspective of the Swedish economy. The study examines the evolving situation in Sweden and its international investment flows, and draws lessons for policy on that basis. Sweden is one of the most internationalised countries in the world, both in terms of inward and outward FDI, has among the best data on FDI and MNE-behaviour and displays a combination of great industrial and technological strengths coupled with an apparent inability to grasp its full potential for economic growth. As part of the study, new data is presented on the development of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). It is shown that technological change and intensifying competition bring increasingly dramatic challenges for such firms, requiring attention from policymakers. In parallel with this work, IKED is engaged in dialogue and project work on similar issues with a range of other countries. Among other activities, IKED has co-ordinated and put together an innovation chapter in an investment policy review of Morocco, undertaken under the stewardship of UNCTAD. This and other related studies were completed and submitted in the fall of 2006.
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