Firm networks and global technology diffusion

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Bastos, Paulo; Stapleton, Katherine; Taglioni, Daria; Wei, Hannah Yi
• 署名单位: The World Bank; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; International Monetary Fund
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-1996
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jinteco.2026.104240
• 发表日期: 2026
• 关键词: direct foreign-investment; domestic firms; TRADE; LABOR; PRODUCTIVITY; exploration; spillovers; INEQUALITY; computers; demand

摘要

This paper examines how multinational firms and global value chain linkages facilitate the crosscountry diffusion of emerging technologies. Leveraging detailed data on online job postings across 17 countries and multinational firm linkages from 2014 to 2022, we analyze the propagation of jobs related to emerging technologies through firm networks. Our findings reveal that emerging technology jobs are highly concentrated within multinational firms and their supply chains, with nearly one-third of postings from Fortune 500 firms, their affiliates, buyers, suppliers, or innovation partners. Although related job openings initially cluster in locations where technologies originate, this advantage diminishes over time as technologies diffuse to wealthier and geographically closer countries and regions. This paper highlights the important role of firm-to-firm linkages in channeling technology diffusion: firms that were previously buyers or innovation partners of establishments in technology-originating locations exhibit faster growth in technology-related jobs.