investigates the link between outsourcing and innovation empirically using firm-level data for over 20 emerging market economies …

outsourcing, profits and innovation using plant level data. We find a positive effect of international outsourcing of services on … activities towards innovation. We also find that international outsourcing has a positive effect on profitability, as predicted … instrumental variables analysis. -- International services outsourcing ; innovation ; R&D …

This paper investigates the link between inward FDI and innovation activity in China, using a very comprehensive and … through which FDI affects the innovation of domestic private and collectively owned enterprises. …