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Emerging market economies represent a group of countries whose economic and social weight is expected to increase in the world in terms of the increase in their share of World Trade, high growth rates, increasing population and potential in the recent period. "Technology" is considered important for the emergence of existing potential in these countries. But emerging market economies have lagged behind developed countries in technology and failed to unlock their potential. Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), on the other hand, is an important type of investment that brings many developments in both economic and social terms, especially in technology. FDI provides capital and technology transfer to the country of entry. It is assumed that this transfer of technology will be transferred to other sectors as a result of the spread, which will lead to both economic and social development. Therefore, it becomes important to determine the economic and social factors that determine FDI. In this study, the determinants of FDI are investigated in the short and long term using data from 22 emerging market economies selected for the period 1996-2019. According to the results obtained using the panel ARDL method, increases in corruption control, external openness rate, total labor force, gross fixed capital and rule of law variables have a positive impact on FDI, while increases in political risks negatively affect FDI inflows. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The increasing pressure of competition in a globalizing world forces the countries that aim to grow rapidly to strengthen their market shares. This requires technological innovations, and scientific knowledge, which is their primary source. In this respect, the main aim of the study is to examine the effects of international technology spillover channels on the innovation performance of firms operating in the Turkish manufacturing industry and to reveal whether this effect shows significant differences with respect to sectoral technology intensity. For the aim of the study, the data of 311 firms covering the period of 2011-2015 were provided by TURKSTAT. The results obtained based on the SGMM estimator show that the technology absorptive capacity of firms operating only in high-technology-intensive industries have a strong positive and significant effect on the innovation performance. In addition, the results of the study show that Foreign Direct Investment has a stronger positive and significant effect on the innovation performance of firms operating in low-technology-intensive sectors than firms operating in high-tech-intensive sectors. Moreover, export activities have almost the same positive and significant effect on the innovation performance of firms in high and low technology intensive sectors. On the other hand, technology transfer expenditures have a positive and significant effect on the new product sales only for firms operating in high technology intensive sectors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]