Faria, Pedro; Sofka, Wolfgang - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008
to host country competitors. We extend this stream of research by investigating MNC appropriability strategies that go … these issues empirically, based on a harmonized survey of innovation activities of more than 1,800 firms located in Portugal … and Germany. We find that MNCs prefer broader sets of appropriability strategies in host countries with fewer …