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This paper analyzes the drivers of multinational affiliates’ R&D intensity, using a unique dataset based on the fourth Community Innovation Survey for Belgium. Specifically, we investigate the role of foreign affiliates’ local (host country) embeddedness and of host country spillovers on...
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The life sciences sector (and biotechnology in particular) has emerged as a prospective area, and attracted a lot of attention recently. Multinational companies in the life sciences seek to explore new markets, and, on the other side, governments strive to develop the life sciences sector...
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Despite competition concerns over the increasing dominance of global corporations, many argue that productivity …
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knowledge creation theory in order to understand the barriers for transfer and the creation of innovation-related knowledge ….g. competencies in codification of knowledge. Originality/value – A synthesis of existing knowledge creation theory is applied to …
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Using an internationally linked patent database, this paper compares the types of R&D activities undertaken by multinationals in China by home country and industry. In China, multinationals recently began investing in R&D, mainly in the areas of product and manufacturing process development....
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-firm international technology transfer, the degree of inter-firm R&D spillovers, the intensity of product market competition, and the … leaders, the share of patents originating in other EU countries responds positively to host country product market competition … discouraged by host country competition but increases with the efficiency of (reverse) technology transfer. Foreign R&D of both …
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This article explores the extent to which the regional higher education system (HES) influences the location of foreign research and development (R&D). To do so, we use a dataset with information on the location choices of new foreign R&D establishments within Spain from 2005 to 2013. Similarly,...
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Aspirant economies are upper middle-income countries seeking to become high-income economies, often through innovation by their internationalizing firms including multinational enterprises. This article reviews selected existing studies on innovation by internationalizing firms from aspirant...
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Despite competition concerns over the increasing dominance of global corporations, many argue that productivity …
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We examine the effect of outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) on total factor productivity (TFP) of home (source of …'s TFP. Second, disentangling OFDI by mode of investment reveals both positive and negative reverse spillovers from FDI to … production and reduced competition at home, M&A purchases produce positive reverse spillovers on the TFP of an MNE's home country …
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