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Competing internationally: On the importance of R&D for export activity
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Wastyn, Annelies - 2010
Export is an important factor to improve growth and welfare especially for industrialized small, open economies such as Belgium. Policy may be interested in key variables that can influence export. This paper finds evidence for the importance of R&D for export activities using Belgian firm-level...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010302586
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Innovation, employment growth, and foreign ownership of firms: A European perspective
Dachs, Bernhard; Peters, Bettina - 2013
This paper examines how foreign-owned and domestically owned firms transform innovation into employment growth. The …, reveals important differences between the two groups: Due to general productivity increases and process innovation, foreign … innovation are larger for foreignowned firms. Together with employment-stimulating effects stemming from existing products, they …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010311888
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Innovation, employment growth, and foreign ownership of firms: A European perspective
Dachs, Bernhard; Peters, Bettina - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
This paper examines how foreign-owned and domestically owned firms transform innovation into employment growth. The …, reveals important differences between the two groups: Due to general productivity increases and process innovation, foreign … innovation are larger for foreignowned firms. Together with employment-stimulating effects stemming from existing products, they …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957608
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Lost in Translation: Empirical Evidence for Liability of Foreignness as a Barrier to Knowledge Spillovers
Sofka, Wolfgang; Schmidt, Tobias - 2006
Entering host country networks of knowledge flows (new competencies, innovative technologies, and lead-market knowledge) is a major rationale of multinational firms for investing abroad. Foreign firms find it difficult to overcome cultural and social barriers which make their foreign engagements...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297509
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Drivers and Effects of Internationalising Innovation by SMEs
Schmiele, Anja; Rammer, Christian - 2008
This paper investigates the drivers and the effects of the internationalisation of innovation activities in SMEs based … on a large data set of German firms covering the period 2002-2007. We look at different stages of the innovation process … resources, home market competition and innovationrelated location advantages for an SME's decision to engage in innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298045
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Drivers and Effects of Internationalising Innovation by SMEs
Rammer, Christian; Schmiele, Anja - 2008
This paper investigates the drivers and effects of the internationalisation of innovation activities in SMEs based on a … large data set of German firms covering the period 2002-2007. We look at different stages of the innovation process (R …, home market competition and innovationrelated location advantages for an SME's decision to engage in innovation activities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298676
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Formal and Strategic Appropriability Strategies of Multinational Firms: A Cross Country Comparison
Faria, Pedro; Sofka, Wolfgang - 2008
these issues empirically, based on a harmonized survey of innovation activities of more than 1,800 firms located in Portugal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298040
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Host Country Contingencies on Knowledge Protection Strategies of Multinational Firms: Bring a Knife to a Gunfight?
Sofka, Wolfgang; Shehu, Edlira - 2009
International knowledge spillovers, especially through multinational companies (MNCs), have recently been a major topic of the academic and management discussion. However, most studies treat MNC subsidiaries as relatively passive actors without clear knowledge protection strategies. The goal of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298720
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Host Country Contingencies on Knowledge Protection Strategies of Multinational Firms: Bring a Knife to a Gunfight?
Sofka, Wolfgang; Shehu, Edlira - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009
International knowledge spillovers, especially through multinational companies (MNCs), have recently been a major topic of the academic and management discussion. However, most studies treat MNC subsidiaries as relatively passive actors without clear knowledge protection strategies. The goal of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097889
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Formal and Strategic Appropriability Strategies of Multinational Firms: A Cross Country Comparison
Faria, Pedro; Sofka, Wolfgang - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008
these issues empirically, based on a harmonized survey of innovation activities of more than 1,800 firms located in Portugal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098370