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Get with the Program : Software-Driven Innovation in Traditional Manufacturing

Branstetter, Lee; Drev, Matej; Kwon, Namho - 2021

This paper documents the increasing importance of software for successful innovation in manufacturing sectors well … beyond the traditional definition of electronics and information technology. Using panel data for 229 publicly listed firms … from 18 countries across four manufacturing industries over the period 1981-2005, we find significant variation across …

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Is Japan'S Innovative Capacity in Decline?

Branstetter, Lee; Nakamura, Yoshiaki - 2021

manufacturing firms over the 1980s and 1990s. Evidence from aggregate patent and R&D statistics and a micro-level analysis of R … these steps the creation of technology alliances with U.S. firms on Japanese innovative output …

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Facts and Fallacies About U.S. FDI in China

Branstetter, Lee - 2007

Despite the rapid expansion of U.S.-China trade ties, the increase in U.S. FDI in China, and the expanding amount of economic research exploring these developments, a number of misconceptions distort the popular understanding of U.S. multinationals in China. In this paper, we seek to correct...

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Knowledge Transfer Abroad : The Role of U.S. Inventors within Global R&D Networks

Branstetter, Lee - 2018

The location of US multinational foreign R&D has shifted significantly to include emerging markets in addition to traditional Western R&D hubs, resulting in two challenges for multinationals: (1) how to transfer knowledge across geographic distances, and (2) how to facilitate learning when local...

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Is Foreign Direct Investment a Channel of Knowledge Spillovers? Evidence from Japan'S FDI in the United States

Branstetter, Lee - 2021

Recent empirical work has examined the extent to which international trade fosters international spillovers' of technological information. FDI is an alternate, potentially equally important channel for the mediation of such knowledge spillovers. I introduce a framework for measuring...

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Do Stronger Intellectual Property Rights Increase International Technology Transfer? Empirical Evidence from U.S. Firm-Level Data

Branstetter, Lee; Fisman, Raymond J.; Foley, C. Fritz - 2021

This paper examines how technology transfer within U.S. multinational firms changes in response to a series of IPR … payments for technology transferred to affiliates increase at the time of reforms, as do affiliate R&D expenditures and total ….S. multinationals respond to changes in IPR regimes abroad by significantly increasing technology transfer to reforming countries …

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Are Knowledge Spillovers International or Intranational in Scope? Microeconometric Evidence from the Japan and the United States

Branstetter, Lee - 2021

In a number of theoretical models, it has been shown that technological externalities can generate multiple equilibria in the global pattern of specialization and trade, with different consequences for the relative welfare of the trading countries. In such models, temporary government policies...

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