While prior studies have investigated the effect of collaborative R&D with different partner types (suppliers, customers, competitors and research institutions & universities) on firms' innovative performance, the implications of dynamic patterns in these collaborations have not received...

We examine the role of host countries’ academic research strengths in global R&D location decisions bymultinational firms. While we expect that a firm’s propensity to perform R&D in a host country increases with the strength of local academic research, firms are expected to be...