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- W3143357789 abstract "Using Northern Ireland as a case study, this paper focuses on the issue of knowledge transfers from the plants of multinational enterprises to their local suppliers. This is important both because the potential for knowledge transfers to indigenous firms has often been used as a justification for public support of inward investment and because of the centrality of “knowledge” and “learning” in recent debates about economic development. Using quantitative data obtained from structured interviews with senior managers at 33 of the largest multinational plants in Northern Ireland, the paper addresses three main issues. First, for a range of “best practice” manufacturing techniques it examines the potential for knowledge transfers by measuring “knowledge gaps” between each multinational plant and (a) best practice within its parent group, and (b) its best local suppliers. Secondly, the paper examines the incidence of various activities through which knowledge might be transferred from multinational plants to their suppliers. Thirdly, the paper considers the impact of knowledge transfers on the competitiveness of local supplier companies. The research shows that multinational plants in Northern Ireland are broadly on a par with international best practice in terms of their stock of “knowledge”. However, their best local suppliers generally lag behind with notable “knowledge gaps” for some key manufacturing techniques. Substantial numbers of multinational plants in Northern Ireland are found to engage in various “knowledge transfer activities” with their suppliers. However, weak local supply linkages at these multinational plants undermine the “natural” level of knowledge transfer to the local economy. This suggests a need both to strengthen local supply chains and to develop other means for smaller local firms to benefit from the knowledge base of locally-based multinational plants. Such measures, which are designed to develop networks and intensify “local learning”, are consistent with the concept of the “learning region” and with the recent DTI White Paper on the “knowledge driven economy”. At present, however, Northern Ireland’s policy framework in this area is less well developed than that in some competitor regions such as Wales and the Republic of Ireland." @default.
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