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 …

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 …

What puts productivity spillovers into effect through worker mobility across firms? Productivity difference between the … flows from foreign-owned companies provide productivity gains for the firm. We argue here that skill-relatedness across … employee-employer linked panel data from 2003-2011 imply that productivity gap rules out the effect of foreign spillovers …