Foreign Investment, Industrial Linkages, and Regional Development.

摘要

The study focused on the Regional and Rural implications of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the United States. In this regard the authors analyzed exiting government data on FDI and surveyed foreign and domestic firms in the auto, semiconductor and computer industries about their operations. The main goals were to understand the job creation potential and the industrial linkages of foreign companies. They also examined state and local policies designed to attract foreign investment. They asked firms in the sample to rank location factors and public industrial development incentives to determine which were the most important to them. They also administered a separate survey to state and local development officials to see which incentives they considered most helpful.