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 …'s accession to the World Trade Organization) (WTO) in 2001. We also show that there is a positive upstream spillover effect of FDI …

national incentives for patent protection? What is the rationale for international coordination over patent policies? Given …

This paper investigates the role of patent protection in the global investment decisions of multinational firms. Using … comprehensive firm-level panel data of German multinationals, we investigate how changes in a host country’s patent protection … influence the extensive and intensive margin of foreign direct investment (FDI) decisions. We isolate the effect of patent …

This paper estimates the link between Japanese foreign direct investment (FDI) and the host country's patent rights …

parents from 36 countries globally and their patent holdings in 36 European countries, we provide insight into the … of royalties, R&D incentives, and transfer pricing rules help to explain the patent-location choices of multinationals. …