Taking note of the importance of outward foreign direct investment for knowledge creation in small countries, the article analyses causes and consequences of the internationalization of R&D. Using firm-specific data on Swedish manufacturing and a selection bias corrected regression method,...

Globalization, high growth rates in high-tech industries, growing emerging markets and harmonization of patent institutions across countries have stimulated patenting in foreign markets. We use a simple model of international patenting, where the decision to patent in a foreign country depends...

One of the major reasons why inventors are awarded patents by governments is they encourage R&D investments and commercialization of inventions. If the patent holder commercializes his/her invention, he/she has stronger incentives to retain the patent. The purpose here is to empirically analyze...