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Fencing off Silicon Valley : crossborder venture capital and technology spillovers
Akcigit, Ufuk; Ates, Sina T.; Lerner, Joshua; Townsend, … - 2020
The treatment of foreign investors has been a contentious topic in U.S. entrepreneurship policy in recent years. This paper examines foreign corporate investments in Silicon Valley from a theoretical and empirical perspective. We model a setting where such funding may allow U.S. entrepreneurs to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012511299
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Turnin it up a notch - How spillovers from foreign direct investment boost the complexity of South Africa’s exports
Sørensen, Bjørn Bo - 2021
Countries’ economic complexity, and the associated diversification and sophistication of their exports, is a key determinant of economic growth. Understanding how South African firms learn to export more sophisticated products is, therefore, an important policy issue. Using administrative data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013312275
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The effects of the internationalisation of firms on innovation and productivity
Siedschlag, Iulia; Zhang, Xiaoheng; Cahill, Brian - 2010
innovation and productivity performance. Our econometric results suggest that foreign affiliates and domestic exporters were more … and higher productivity than firms that served only the domestic market. On average, innovation output was positively … associated with labour productivity over and above other determinants. Access to external knowledge flows explain to a large …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008772713
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Multinational Production and the Scope of Innovation
Bakhtiari, Sasan - 2015
This research sheds light on the role of multinational production on the type of innovation performed by firms. We construct matched firm-patent data to measure the scope of innovation, that is the extent to which the output of R&D can be spread across different product lines. We focus on two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013027147
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Multinational Production and the Scope of Innovation
Bakhtiari, Sasan; Minniti, Antonio; Naghavi, Alireza - 2014
This research sheds light on the role of multinational production on the type of innovation performed by firms. We construct matched firm-patent data to measure the scope of innovation, that is the extent to which the output of R&D can be spread across different product lines. We focus on two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014154177
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Does FDI Spur Innovation, Productivity and Knowledge Sourcing by Incumbent Firms? Evidence from Manufacturing Industry in Estonia
Vahter, Priit - 2010
Does FDI affect innovation, productivity growth, and knowledge sourcing activities of domestic firms? This study … effect of FDI entry on local incumbents’ TFP and labour productivity growth in the short term. However, there are positive … spillovers on process innovation. These effects do not depend on the local firms’ distance to the productivity frontier. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014195696
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Does FDI Spur Innovation, Productivity and Knowledge Sourcing by Incumbent Firms? Evidence from Manufacturing Industry in Estonia
Vahter, Priit - 2010
Does FDI affect productivity growth, innovation, and knowledge sourcing activities of domestic firms? This study … of FDI entry on local incumbents’ TFP and labour productivity growth in the short term. The effect on productivity does … not depend on the local firms’ distance to the productivity frontier. However, there are positive spillovers on process …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014193027
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Innovation and Foreign Ownership
Guadalupe, Maria - 2013
technologies, leading to higher productivity. We propose a model of endogenous selection and innovation in heterogeneous firms that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013094084
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Does FDI Spur Innovation, Productivity and Knowledge Sourcing by Incumbent Firms? Evidence from Manufacturing Industry in Estonia
Vahter, Priit - 2010
Does FDI affect productivity growth, innovation, and knowledge sourcing activities of domestic firms? This study … of FDI entry on local incumbents' TFP and labour productivity growth in the short term. The effect on productivity does … not depend on the local firms' distance to the productivity frontier. However, there are positive spillovers on process …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013143826
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Multinational Production and the Scope of Innovation
Bakhtiari, Sasan - 2014
This research sheds light on the role of multinational production on the type of innovation performed by firms. We construct matched firm-patent data to measure the scope of innovation, that is the extent to which the output of R&D can be spread across different product lines. We focus on two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013063954