Globalization has set new paradigms, especially in the business world. Breakthroughs in technology (telecommunications …, logistics, the internet) and ideology (most notably economic and political trends in China and India) are creating exciting … instead that a company may use its international value chain (customers, suppliers and competitors) to utilize foreign sources …

, Eastern Europe, Western Europe and North America) as well as in groups of countries with similar levels of knowledge (country …, international experience and existing technological competences of the respective firm. Innovation barriers at the German home base … which innovate in developing countries seem to require a more extensive level of international experience by international R …

legal advisor for small and medium sized German enterprises. The results show that firms with international R&D activities … infringements from no innovation host countries. R&D activities in China and North America also increase the risk of an infringement … particular whether this risk is higher for international innovating firms. We distinguish three different types of IP …

country knowledge. We use a broad sample of roughly 1,000 firms in Germany to empirically test the existence of liabilities of …Entering host country networks of knowledge flows (new competencies, innovative technologies, and lead-market knowledge … footing with host country rivals when it comes to generating impulses for innovations from suppliers and academia. They are …

This paper analyzes diversification benefits from international securitized real estate in a mixed-asset context. We … account for foreign exchange risk exposure. From the perspective of a US investor, it is shown that first, international … diversification is superior to a US mixed-asset portfolio, second, adding international real estate to an already internationally …

and offset their lack of within-country experience. The foreign VC's distance from the portfolio company ceases to be a …

, and international stocks. Overall, our results suggest that there are significant improvements in international portfolio … but we also show that international portfolios augmented by FX investment styles are superior in terms of second and third … portfolio augmented by FX investment styles compared to the benchmark. -- International Diversification ; Foreign Exchange …

In international politics, intergovernmental treaties provide the rules of the game. Similar to private law, treaty … measurement of flexibility in international treaties. Based on 400 treaties and supplementary agreements from the field of … international environmental law, we provide new insights into the combined application of rules for adoption and entry into force of …

that other countries adopt and therefore generate export opportunities for the pioneering country. The research so far …-efficient passenger cars and wind energy. In both cases, one country adopted the innovation first. Later, other countries followed the … concentrated on the question on how national environmental regulation can induce innovations. The question addressed in this paper …