Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 147,488
Cover Image
Is hiring foreign worth it? : spillover from foreign firms' human capital and local firms' productivity
Pyun, Ju Hyun; Sun, Jong-in - 2022
This study examines the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on local firms' productivity via human capital transfer from MNEs to local firms. Using the firm-level data for 2010-2015 from the Republic of Korea, we identify human capital spillovers using local firms' hired permanent foreign...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013256491
Cover Image
Innovation and employment in patenting firms : empirical evidence from Europe
Van Roy, Vincent; Vertesy, Daniel; Vivarelli, Marco - 2015
almost 20,000 patenting firms from Europe over the period 2003-2012. The main outcome from the proposed GMM-SYS estimations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288522
Cover Image
The impact of foreign acquisitions on the investors' R&D activities : firm-level evidence
Stiebale, Joel - 2010
This paper provides empirical evidence on the relationship between cross-border acquisitions and innovation activities at the firm level. In contrast to previous studies that analyze the effects on innovation in target firms, this paper investigates the effects on the investing firms. For the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003924470
Cover Image
Cooperation between higher education institutions and companies from a spatial perspective : an empirical analysis of Germany using Bayesian logistic multilevel models
Warnecke, Christian; Weller, Daniel - 2017
education institutions (HEIs) and the economic system in Germany. In the pursuit of this goal, our research work employs a … zwischen Unternehmen und Hochschulen in Deutschland ausüben. Die Analysen stützen sich dabei auf bayesianische Modellierungen …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011685074
Cover Image
Regional FDI, technological knowledge and export-oriented entrepreneurs in Spain
Gonzalez-Pernia, Jose L.; Peña-Legazkue, Iñaki - 2012
The emergence of new ventures that from inception use resources and sell their goods and services in multiple foreign markets has challenged traditional theories explaining the internationalization of a firm as a stage process (Oviatt & McDougall, 1994). Different factors have been identified to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011508033
Cover Image
FDI technology spillovers and spatial diffusion in the People's Republic of China
Lin, Mi; Kwan, Yum-keung - 2013
This paper investigates the geographic extent of foreign direct investment (FDI) technology spillovers and diffusion in … productivity (TFP) innovation clusters, uncover the spatial extent of technology diffusion, and quantify both the temporal and … positive FDI spillovers through interregional technology diffusion via labor market channels; these interregional spillovers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010241544
Cover Image
Foreign direct investment spillovers and pharmaceutical innovation : the role of intellectual property rights
Ho, Chun-Yu; Li, Xin; Zhou, Weimin - 2017
This paper examines the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on domestic innovation based on a data set covering the pharmaceutical industries across 29 provinces in the People's Republic of China (PRC) over the period 1998-2007. We show that there is a negative horizontal spillover effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011723712
Cover Image
What determines the attractiveness of the European Union to the location of R&D multinational firms?
Siedschlag, Iulia; Smith, Donal; Turcu, Camelia; Zhang, … - 2009
, low production cost, R&D intensity, flexibility of labour markets, access to skilled labour and information technology …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003869195
Cover Image
Diffusion of technology and convergence of income among countries
Oz, Sumru - 2014 - Preliminary version; April 9, 2014
Theoretical models of growth reveal that either exogenous or endogenous, technology is the main driving force behind … the long-run economic growth. Furthermore, in the endogenous growth framework, diffusion of technology is the basic … of foreign direct investment (FDI), considering that the latter is an international technology diffusion channel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010251655
Cover Image
Multinationality, R&D and productivity evidence from the top R&D investors worldwide
Castellani, Davide; Montresor, Sandro; Schubert, Torben; … - 2015
The paper investigates the impact that the multinational scope of firms' activities can have on their productivity. First, we argue that such an impact is both direct and indirect, and that the latter is channelled through higher incentives to invest in R&D. Second, we posit that the composition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011983762