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Outsourcing, Offshoring and Innovation: Evidence from Firm-level Data for Emerging Economies
Fritsch, Ursula; Görg, Holger - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
It is striking that by far the lion's share of empirical studies on the impact of outsourcing on firms considers … industrialized countries. However, outsourcing by firms from emerging economies is far from negligible and growing. This paper … investigates the link between outsourcing and innovation empirically using firm-level data for over 20 emerging market economies …
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Outsourcing, Offshoring and Innovation: Evidence from Firm-level Data for Emerging Economies
Fritsch, Ursula; Görg, Holger - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013
It is striking that by far the lion’s share of empirical studies on the impact of outsourcing on firms considers … industrialized countries. However, outsourcing by firms from emerging economies is far from negligible and growing. This paper … investigates the link between outsourcing and innovation empirically using firm-level data for over 20 emerging market economies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886993
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Going Global: The Challenges for Knowledge-based Economies
Squicciarini, Mariagrazia; Loikkanen, Torsti - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The present volume aims to provide a comprehensive and systemic overview of the challenges that going global poses to knowledge based economies. Its focus is four-fold. 1) Firstly, it investigates why companies, especially high-tech firms, go global, i.e. which are the drivers that push...
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Innovation and Performance in Manufacturing Industries: A Comparison of the Nordic Countries
Lööf, Hans; Heshmati, Almas; Asplund, Rita; Nåås, … - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2001
The availability of new internationally-harmonized innovation survey data collected from OECD countries has created some interesting opportunities for studying the following two key areas: (1) the determinants of innovation behavior at firm level, and (2) innovation as an important factor...
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Innovation in China: the rise of Chinese inventors in the production of knowledge
Griffith, Rachel; Miller, Helen - Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) - 2011
<p><p>In 2010 China was the world's fourth largest filer of patent applications. This followed a decade of unprecedented increases in investment in skills and Research and Development. If current trends continue China could rank first in the very near future. We provide evidence that the growth in...</p></p>
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Globalisation of technology development: offshoring of R&D to China, India and Brazil
Chakrabarti, Alok K.; Bhaumik, Pradip K. - In: International Journal of Engineering Management and … 1 (2010) 1, pp. 68-79
Fundamental shifts in the mode, the geography and the personnel of global technology development are taking place in the wake of increasing globalisation of economies and rapid technological changes. Many large multinational corporations are focusing on building global innovation networks,...
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The effect of offshoring on knowledge flows in the US automobile industry
Simons, Gerald; Isely, Paul - In: Economics of Innovation and New Technology 19 (2010) 6, pp. 553-568
In the growing literature on offshoring, little attention has been given to the impact on product innovation. In this … paper we empirically investigate the connection between industry innovation and offshoring in manufacturing. Specifically …, our focus is on how information flows to the US economy have been affected by the increase in manufacturing offshoring in …
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The Effects of Production Offshoring on R&D and Innovation in the Home Country
Dachs, Bernhard; Ebersberger, Bernd - FIW - 2013
offshoring on R&D and innovation activities of the firm in the home country. The analysis is based on a dataset of more than 3000 … firms which have offshored production activities in a previous period to a control group of non-offshoring firms. The … analysis finds no negative effect of production offshoring on innovation and technological capabilities of firms in the home …
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Services outsourcing and innovation: An empirical investigation
Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
We provide a comprehensive empirical analysis of the links between international services outsourcing, domestic … outsourcing, profits and innovation using plant level data. We find a positive effect of international outsourcing of services on … innovative activity at the plant level. Such a positive effect can also be observed for domestic outsourcing of services, but the …
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Innovation and the International Firm Structure: Theory and Evidence from German Firm-Level Data
Hansen, Thorsten - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper studies the impact of innovation on the organizational structure. The theoretical framework predicts that a larger parental pool of knowledge raises the probability of oshoring. This holds in a national as well as an international context. However, when the producer loses territorial...
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