Uzagalieva, AinuraKočenda, EvženMenezes, António Gomes de2019-03-222019-03-222012-01Uzagalieva, Ainura; Kočenda, Evžen; Menezes, António Gomes (2012). Technological innovation in New European Union Markets, “Working Paper Series”, nº 1/12, 23 pp.. Ponta Delgada: Universidade dos Açores, CEEAplA-A.http://hdl.handle.net/10400.3/5051http://hdl.handle.net/10419/79238We analyze the role of innovation in the technological development of four new EU members: the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. For that purpose, we use a novel approach by modeling the empirical relationship between intra-industrial bilateral trade flows, which proxy the level of technological progress, and innovation expenditures within the context of a gravity model with a set of appropriate instrumental variables to account for the potential endogeneity of innovation to trade. We show that innovation efforts in high-tech industries exhibit a strong effect on the technological progress of the region and they are closely linked to foreign direct investment and multinationals. As foreign-owned subsidiaries become a part of the innovation systems and industrial structure of the host country they promote overall technological growth in the region.engForeign Direct InvestmentInnovationImitationInternational TradeEuropean Unionworking paper