Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/208458 
Year of Publication: 
2002
Series/Report no.: 
Working paper No. 10-2002
Publisher: 
Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Department of Economics, Frederiksberg
Abstract: 
We study the rationale for the use of exclusivity to protect transfer of technology in subcontracting agreements. The legal possibility arises through the EU Notice on Subcontracting. Empirically, the link between exclusive agreements and technology transfer among firms in the automotive supply industry in EU candidate countries is surprisingly weak, although with exclusive-supply or exclusive-buying clauses in subcontracting agreements upstream transfer of technology is more likely. Exclusive agreements are often reciprocal, and are typically passed on. Downstream firms are more likely to face and use vertical restraints. Technology trickles upstream: Multinational final assemblers transfer more technology than lower-tier suppliers.
Subjects: 
Transfer of technology
subcontracting
exclusive agreements
automotive supply industry
vertical restraints
JEL: 
D23
D40
K12
L14
L42
L62
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Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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