This article explores whether mergers and acquisitions (M&As) generate differentiated impacts on the acquiring firms' R&D expenditures, patents granted, and product innovations. Considering M&As as a way of foreign expansion, we examine whether the technological effects differ between domestic...

Over the last two decades, a great number of studies have focused on the explanation of trade performance based on technological factors, including various studies on technology gaps. The aim of the present paper is to extend this empirical approach to include some additional factors including...

This paper introduces service innovation in the proximity-concentration trade-off model of trade and foreign direct investments (FDI) [Helpman, E., M. Melitz, and S. R. Yeaple 2004. "Export Versus FDI with Heterogeneous Firms." <italic>American Economic Review</italic> 94 (1): 300--316]. The idea is that...

The paper presents an analysis of the factors explaining the export performance of firms in the defence sector. We focus on the case of Norway, and make use of two complementary methodologies: the first is based on econometric firm-level data analysis for the whole population of defence...

The paper compares the innovativeness of group-affiliated firms (GAFs) and standalone firms (SAFs), and it investigates how country-specific institutional factors affect the group–innovation relationship. The paper analyzes the contrasting predictions of two competing views: the institutional...