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This paper investigates whether inflows of FDI and innovative activities act as a channel of knowledge spillovers in improving quality of countries' output. In measuring export quality, sophistication of a country's export basket is utilized. Utilizing panel data of countries for the period 2002-2015 and applying GMM methodology, the results indicate that the level of financial development, the quality of human capital and globalization of a country have a determinant role on the relation between knowledge spillover channels and the quality of exports. Patent applications generally positively affect sophistication of exports. FDI serves as a channel for knowledge spillovers to benefit the sophistication level of exports only for developed, more educated, financially developed and globalized countries.

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This study aims to investigate whether Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows and innovative activities act as a knowledge spillover channel that increases the logistics performance of countries. In the analysis, the effects of these activities on the logistics performance were questioned according to the development levels of countries and six different logistics performance indicators by the Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) Estimator method. The estimation results show that FDI, R&D investments and patent applications, which are considered as the knowledge spillover channels, have a statistically significant and positive effect on the logistics performance of countries. In addition, it is concluded that this effect is higher in developing countries compared to developed ones.