This paper investigates whether multinational firms are less or more efficient in innovation activities than domestic … firms. Using patents and citations scaled by R&D expenses and R&D capital as measures of innovation efficiency, we find that … multinational firms have lower levels of innovation efficiency than purely domestic firms. This finding has been supported by …

This paper investigates the drivers and the effects of the internationalisation of innovation activities in SMEs based … on a large data set of German firms covering the period 2002-2007. We look at different stages of the innovation process … resources, home market competition and innovationrelated location advantages for an SME's decision to engage in innovation …

In recent years, there has been a fundamental shift in the innovation architecture of global firms. Rapid growth of the … middle class in emerging markets, led by China, India, Brazil and Russia, is fueling the need to create affordable … is creating increased consumer demand for affordable innovations. Thus, these innovations are reshaping the innovation …

We make a literature review on the process of Internationalization, and the process of Research and Development. Firm … structure a vital process such as Innovation since it has such a clear impact on the sustainable performance of the firm. The …

This research note investigates the relative innovation performance and international presence of small and medium … support for research and development (R&D) correlates positively with firms’ innovation activities and R&D expenditure. The … results also suggest that innovation activities increase the probability of outward foreign direct investment. The results …

medium size exporting companies into international networks of innovation. Technological sourcing seems to be leading this …

size exporting companies into international networks of innovation. Technological sourcing seems to be leading this …