Guedri Salah EddineDjabi Amina HanaBoukeltoum Mohamed2024-11-102024-11-102024-10-31Guedri , Salah Eddine. Djabi , Amina Hana . Boukeltoum, Mohamed . The Role Of Foreign Direct Investment In Supporting The Transition To A Knowledge Economy: Case Of China . Journal of Advanced Economic Research . Vol. 09. N. 02. 31october 2024. faculty of economie commercial and management sciences. university of el oued [visitedin ../../….]. availablefrom[copy linkhere].2572-0198https://dspace.univ-eloued.dz/handle/123456789/35552The trend in world economy is towards knowledge-based economy. Knowledge is becoming more and more a major factor in the economy of the 21st century. technology is the type of knowledge most related to economic and social development. Technology market has been undergoing several changes during the last two decades; Technology is perceived as an intangible asset and is traded internationally either in embodied or disembodied from technology generation is concentrated in few developed countries and is protected more and more by intellectual property rights. Developing countries wanted to close the technology gap by attracting FDI because they saw it as a magical solution to transfer technology. But experience s showed that they were wrong and that needs a national system of invention and innovation based on training and teaching technological task force and research and development.enKnowledge EconomicForeign Direct Investment (FDI)Transfer of TechnologyAbsorptive Capacity ChinaArticle