innovation activities in Germany from various sectors. We find that foreign-controlled firms are not challenged by liability of …The innovation activities of foreign subsidiaries have been identified as an important source of competitive advantage … recommendations how foreign innovation engagements can achieve similar levels of effectiveness and efficiency as host country …

innovation activities in Germany from various sectors. We find that foreign-controlled firms are not challenged by liability of …The innovation activities of foreign subsidiaries have been identified as an important source of competitive advantage … recommendations how foreign innovation engagements can achieve similar levels of effectiveness and efficiency as host country …

) is a major rationale of multinational firms for investing abroad. Foreign firms find it difficult to overcome cultural … and social barriers which make their foreign engagements more strenuous and error prone (liability of foreignness). In our … foreignness. We hypothesise that liability of foreignness acts as a filter for foreign firms, restricting their access to host …

data on patent applications and on the operations of the foreign affiliates of U.S. multinational .rms. The results … indicate that increases in the share of a firm's innovation performed by inventors of a particular ethnicity are associated …

This research sheds light on the role of product scope on the innovation activity of multinational multi-product firms …. We use patent citation data to break down innovation into two types by measuring the degree to which innovation performed … focus on two features in multinational production: (i) fundamental innovation is geographically more difficult to transfer …

using a broad dataset of more than 1,000innovative firms in Germany. We find that MNCs can compete on an equal footing with …

We estimate the determinants of various types of product innovation. Knowledge spillovers from rivals have a positive … exert no such independent influence on drastic innovation activities. The results support the hypothesis that establishments …

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 …