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 …

from China impact U.S. innovation through the markets for innovation and existing products. We identify shocks to … innovation and existing product competition using the geography of Chinese internet penetration and Chinese import data … intellectual property and in existing products are associated with decreased U.S. firm innovation …

This paper models the interactions among technological innovation, product market competition and information leakage …

undertake innovation. Successful imitation of the state-of-the-art quality level makes inventing an even higher quality level … attractive for Southern firms. Subsidizing Southern innovation increases the rate of Southern innovation relative to imitation … but also decreases the rate of imitation. Taxing (Southern) imitation or Northern innovation has the same effect, as does …

organizational innovation as well as overall performance. Our results, which are derived from a sample of 132 SMEs active in … organizational innovation. …

. Adopting new production technologies and realizing synergy effects might allow cost reduction, product innovation and product … upgrading. Even if GVCs represent a rich environment for innovation activities, the extent to which knowledge is created and … heterogeneous innovation capacities for the firms involved. Differences in the forms of governance underlying buyer …

&D locations is no reason for concern regarding the perceived hollowing-out of the national innovation systems. Indeed, since the … advantages built at home are at the core of both the HBA and HBE strategies, the national system of innovation in the home …

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 …

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 …