This paper examines the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on domestic innovation based on a data set covering … show that there is a negative horizontal spillover effect of FDI on domestic innovation when the intellectual property … on why developing countries should encourage FDI and strengthen the IPR regime together to enhance domestic innovation …

firm innovation. To do so, we create a panel dataset by matching official China Top Brand Award recipients to the … innovation outputs of listed companies. Results from difference-in-differences estimates show that firms that received the China … Top Brand Award have a higher number, and better quality, of filed patents. We find that the positive effects of winning …