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The challenge of measuring innovation in emerging economies' firms: A proposal of a new set of indicators on innovation
Marins, Luciana - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2008
The traditional indicators on innovation rely on the linear assumption that research leads to development, centring on … the measurement of inputs and outputs. Based on the traditional innovation indicators, recent studies focused on the … industrial innovation process at Latin America state that nowadays Latin American firms display a passive role at world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005150769
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Missing the target: Lessons from enabling innovation in South Asia
Rasheed, Sulaiman V.; Hall, Andy; Reddy, T.S. Vamsidhar - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2011
been known for many years about the way innovation takes place and finds that many of the shortcomings of RIU in Asia were … precisely because lessons from previous research on agricultural innovation were "not put into use" in the programme … research: (i) Promoting research into use requires enabling innovation. This goes beyond fostering collaboration, and includes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323002
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Innovation performance and embeddedness in networks: evidence from the Ethiopian footwear cluster
Gebreeyesus, Mulu; Mohnen, Pierre - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2011
This study focuses on innovation in a cluster of informal shoemaking firms in Ethiopia - namely the Mercato footwear … capacity, and how this heterogeneity affects their innovation performance. Business interactions with buyers, suppliers and … strong effect of local network position and absorptive capacity on innovation performance. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009276037
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Internationalization of Chinese firms in Europe
Zhang, Ying; Filippov, Sergey - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2009
Since end of the 1990s, the world has been witnessing a phenomenon of internationalisation of Chinese companies. This internationalisation is often understood through FDI inflows, whereby multinational companies establish their presence in a form of subsidiaries overseas. However, lately many...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008531432
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The Heterogeneity of MNC' Subsidiaries and Technology Spillovers: Explaining positive and negative effects in emerging economies
Marin, Anabel; Sasidharan, Subash - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2008
Conventional models of multinational corporation (MNC) related spillovers in host economies assume that they derive from the technological assets created at the headquarters. Subsidiaries' activities in the host economy are not given any role in this process. In this paper, drawing on recent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005451565
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Europeanisation Strategy of Chinese Companies: Its Perils and Promises
Filippov, Sergey; Saebi, Tina - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2008
The magnitude of outward FDI from China over the recent years has been impressive. It is widely acknowledged that China's government plays an active role in encouraging its companies to go global and become multinational as they realise the value of outward FDI. The paper traces the development...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005451569
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R&D offshoring and technology learning in emerging economies: Firm-level evidence from the ICT industry
Huang, Can; Qu, Zhe; Zhang, Mingqian; Zhao, Yanyun - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2007
This paper studies the impact of the R&D offshoring of multinational enterprises on the firms in host emerging economies. We develop a two-stage non-cooperative game to analyze the strategic interaction between multinational and host country enterprises engaged in R&D investment. An empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005451571
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The making of national giants: technology and governments shaping the international expansion of oil companies from Brazil and China
Pereira de Carvalho, Flavia; Goldstein, Andrea - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2008
This chapter analyses foreign direct investments (henceforth FDI) in the oil industry from two large emerging economies, Brazil and China, with the purpose to understand the role of Governments and technology in the internationalisation strategies of those firms. The chapter shows that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005451575
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Technology alliances in emerging economies: Persistence and interrelation in European firms' alliance formation
Belderbos, Rene; Gilsing, Victor; Jacob, Jojo - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2011
We analyze patterns and determinants of technology alliance formation with partner firms from emerging economies, with a focus on European firms' alliance strategies. We examine to what extent European firms' alliance formation with partners based in emerging economies is persistent, that is: to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009150029
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Russia's emerging multinationals: trends and issues
Filippov, Sergey - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2008
The paper focuses on the emergence of Russia's multinational companies. It aims to analyse their motives to internationalise as well as the approaches to internationalisation. While relevance of the theoretical perspectives is highlighted, the intention of the paper is to contribute to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005510300