Reenen, John Van; Harrison, Rupert; Griffith, Rachel - In: American Economic Review 96 (2006) 5, pp. 1859-1875
We examine the "technology sourcing" hypothesis that foreign research labs located in the U.S. tap into U.S. R&D spillovers and improve home country productivity. We show that U.K. firms that established a high proportion of inventors based in the U.S. by 1990 benefited disproportionately from...