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We study the effect of the intellectual property rights (IPR) regime of a host country (South) on a multinational's decision between serving a market via greenfield foreign direct investment to avoid the exposure of its technology or entering a joint venture (JV) with a local firm, which allows...
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This research sheds light on the role of multinational production on the type of innovation performed by firms. We … construct matched firm-patent data to measure the scope of innovation, that is the extent to which the output of R&D can be … geographically separate production from innovation focus on more specialized types of R&D. …
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developing countries (South) through its impact on innovation, market structure and technology transfer. In a North-South trade … environment, the South sets its IPR policy strategically to manipulate multinationals’ decisions on innovation and location. Firms … stimulates innovation by pushing multinationals to deter entry in high-technology sectors. …
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cases policy should favour R&D by incumbents, not outsiders, and that stronger patent protection may reduce innovation and …
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with 20 or more employees comprising 1993-1995 CIS II data on firm innovation strategic motivations and 1995-1998 data on … model in which the covariates include firm strategies (innovation and environmental), and a set of other explanatory … negative impact from environmental innovation strategy, implying either a short-medium effect, possibly balanced in the long …
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We find that institutional ownership in publicly traded companies is associated with more innovation (measured by cite …, policy changes and disaggregating by type of owner we find that the effect of institutions on innovation does not appear to …
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in China, as shaped by the risk of Dissipation of Intangible Assets. Probit estimates, based on an entirely new firm …
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the production of innovation within this R&D sector. We look at the specific problem of coordinating the supply of inputs … marketing of the innovation occurs. This property rights scenario raises two problems, one of efficiency and one of equity. The …
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In many industries it is quite common to observe firms delegating the production of essential inputs to independent ventures jointly established with competing rivals. The diffusion of this arrangement and the favourable stance of competition authorities call for the assessment of the social and...
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The main aim of the paper is to highlight the relation between flexibility and vertical integration. To this purpose, we go through the selection of the optimal degree of vertical disintegration of a flexible firm which operates in a dynamic uncertain environment. The enterprise we model enjoys...
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