Hagedoorn, John; Cloodt, Danielle; Kranenburg, Hans van - In: Journal of International Business Studies 36 (2005) 2, pp. 175-186
This paper studies the degree to which country differences in intellectual property rights protection affect the choice of companies for a particular mode of international inter-firm R&D partnering. It focuses on the preference of companies for either an equity joint venture or a contractual...