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Complementarity in the Innovation Strategy: Internal R&D, External Technology Acquisition and Cooperation

Cassiman, Bruno; Veugelers, Reinhilde - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

Successful innovation depends on the development and integration of new knowledge in the innovation process. In order … to innovate successfully, the firm will combine different innovation activities. In addition to doing own research and … innovation activities. Using data from the Community Innovation Survey on Belgian manufacturing firms, we show that firms that …

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Systemic Risk and Network Formation in the Interbank Market

Cohen-Cole, Ethan; Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We propose a novel mechanism to facilitate understanding of systemic risk in financial markets. The literature on systemic risk has focused on two mechanisms, common shocks and domino-like sequential default. Our approach is a formal model that provides an intellectual combination of the two by...

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Can You Teach Old Dragons New Tricks? FDI and Innovation Activity in Chinese State-Owned Enterprises

Girma, Sourafel; Gong, Yundan; Görg, Holger - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

We investigate whether inward FDI, either at the firm or industry level, has any impact on product innovation by … that export, invest in human capital or R&D, or have prior innovation experience. We also find that SOEs with internal R …

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The Territorial Dynamics Of Innovation In China And India

Crescenzi, Riccardo; Rodriguez-Pose, Andres; Storper, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

This paper analyses the geography of innovation in China and India. Using a tailor-made panel database for regions in … between the provinces and states within both countries are quite different. In China, the concentration of innovation is …. Innovative areas in China, rather than generate knowledge spillovers, seem to produce strong backwash effects. In India, by …

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Does FDI Work as a Channel for R&D Spillovers? Evidence Based on Swedish Data

Braconier, Henrik; Ekholm, Karolina; Ulltveit-Moe, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

Multinational enterprises (MNEs) are important in transmitting technology across national borders. Not only do they allow for transfer of technology within the firm, but it is also believed that they are important channels for international R&D spillovers as well. This paper analyses empirically...

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Global Production and Trade in the Knowledge Economy

Keller, Wolfgang; Yeaple, Stephen R - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

This paper presents and tests a new model of multinational firms to explain a rich array of multinational behavior. In contrast to most approaches, here the multinational faces costs to transferring its know-how that are increasing in technological complexity. Costly technology transfer gives...

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Knowledge Diffusion, Supplier's Technological Effort and Technology Transfer via Vertical Relationships

Goh, Ai Ting - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

This Paper studies the effect of knowledge diffusion on the incentives for developed countries’ (DC) firms to undertake costly transfer of production knowledge of an input to their developing countries’ (LDC) suppliers whose costs of production vary inversely with their technological effort....

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Intellectual Property Rights and Entry into a Foreign Market: FDI vs Joint Ventures

Leahy, Dermot; Naghavi, Alireza - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

This paper investigates how the mode of entry into a foreign market can be influenced by the intensity of R&D in an industry and the protection of intellectual property rights (IPR) in a recipient country. It then analyzes the link between the IPR regime and policies that place limits on the...

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Multinational Corporations and Spillovers

Blomström, Magnus; Kokko, Ari - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

This paper examines spillover effects of the activities of multinational firms (MNCs). Such effects are most likely to be found in host countries, where the operations of foreign multinationals may influence local firms in the MNC’s own industry as well as firms in other industries. There is...

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Foreign Direct Investment, Competitive Pressure and Spillovers. An Empirical Analysis of Spanish Firm Level Data

Sembenelli, Alessandro; Siotis, Georges - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

A short review of the theoretical and empirical evidence indicates that foreign direct investment (FDI) has the potential to increase the intensity of competition as well as to act as a channel for technology transfers. One would expect, all else equal, an increase in average firm performance...

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