Peters, Bettina; Schmiele, Anja - 2011
innovativeness and consequently competitiveness and profitability. Such business ventures, however, might be associated with huge … international R&D activities boost profitability. We employ a large data set of about 1300 firms from the German Community … Innovation Survey (CIS). The empirical results demonstrate that R&D location matters for profitability. Firms with both domestic …