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SERC DISCUSSION PAPER 16 Spillover and Backward Linkage Effects of FDI: Empirical Evidence for the UK Richard Harris (SERC, University of Glasgow, CPPR) March 2009 This work was part of the research programme of the independent UK Spatial Economics Research Centre funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR), the Department for Communities and Local Government (CLG), and the Welsh Assembly Government. The support of the funders is acknowledged. The views expressed are those of the authors and do not represent the views of the funders. © R. Harris submitted 2008 Spillover and Backward Linkage Effects of FDI: Empirical Evidence for the UK Richard Harris* March 2009 * SERC, University of Glasgow and CPPR Acknowledgements An earlier version of this paper was presented to the 2008 European Regional Science Association Congress, Liverpool, 25th-28th August 2008. Abstract Recent work (including that of the author) on the impact of FDI has been based on micro- level (i.e. firms, establishments or plants) data, since this allows much greater control when examining such issues as whether FDI plants are more productive or innovative; whether there are spillovers to indigenous plants from FDI; and whether foreign-owned plants can facilitate the building-up of clusters. The traditional approach (which is still prevalent in the literature) considers whether those industries and/or regions with the greatest concentrations of FDI experience higher productivity, growth, spillovers, clustering affects, but such analysis does not tackle the issue of cause-and-effect and therefore amounts to little more than observing correlat