The CRIOS-PatStat is a patent database made by a team of researchers active at Bocconi University (Milan). In this database the user can find, for European patent office based applications, disambiguated inventors and applicants' names as well as other standardized information that are often...

We analyze the determinants of the decision to invest abroad in particular configurations of overseas plants for 120 Japanese firms active in 36 well-defined electronic product markets. We find support for a structured internationalization decision model in which the decision to produce abroad...