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The innovation activities of foreign subsidiaries have been identified as an important source of competitive advantage … foreignness). We derive potential stumbling blocks in the innovation process theoretically and argue that these materialize as … innovation activities in Germany from various sectors. We find that foreign-controlled firms are not challenged by liability of …
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This paper analyses the determinants of spatial distribution of foreign technological activity across 96 German regions (1996-2009). We identify foreign inventive activity by applying the ‘cross-border-ownership concept’ to transnational patent applications. The descriptive analysis shows...
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International transfer prices (ITP) policies affect economic decisions and corporate performance. It is a long held belief that multinational companies use ITP to minimize global tax liability. From this point of view, this is an administrative process but the strategy is also as a major...
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analysis rests on the German data from the Europe-wide Community Innovation Survey (CIS). We use a unique data set of about 900 … domestic innovation activities the later wave reports IP infringements. In a second analysis, the likelihood of infringements … from innovation host countries and no innovation host countries abroad is examined. Before the empirical analysis, an …
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analysis rests on the German data from the Europe-wide Community Innovation Survey (CIS). We use a unique data set of about 900 … domestic innovation activities the later wave reports IP infringements. In a second analysis, the likelihood of infringements … from innovation host countries and no innovation host countries abroad is examined. Before the empirical analysis, an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131531
Multinational corporations (MNC) search increasingly for lead market knowledge and technological expertise around the globe. We investigate whether their subsidiaries gain access to these valuable sources of host country knowledge to the same degree as domestic rivals. We develop a theoretical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003831958
Multinational corporations (MNC) search increasingly for lead market knowledge and technological expertise around the globe. We investigate whether their subsidiaries gain access to these valuable sources of host country knowledge to the same degree as domestic rivals. We develop a theoretical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012991060
In this paper we analyze the conditions under which firms decide to offshore innovation. We consider the role of … technological change. Using unique data from the German Innovation Survey we find that while high speed of technological change … tends to drive innovation offshoring, high uncertainty about future technology developments results in more innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012987480
In this paper we analyze the conditions under which firms decide to offshore innovation. We consider the role of … technological change. Using unique data from the German Innovation Survey we find that while high speed of technological change … tends to drive innovation offshoring, high uncertainty about future technology developments results in more innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014126466
In recent years, innovation processes involve more heterogenous actors inside and outside the firm. Little is known … however about the spatial impact of this organisational decomposition of innovation processes (ODIP): Does it lead to a … geographical dispersion of innovation activities as well? Furthermore, which parts of the innovation process are carried out …
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