This paper addresses the internationalisation of R&D of large multinational firms by analysing their patents from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s. It highlights three major results. Firstly it does not reveal any significant increase of the global rate of R&D internationalisation, which remains...

The aim of this paper is to examine whether firms that innovate, experience higher rates of growth than firms that do not. Our analysis is based on different models and econometric methodologies applied to several waves the Community Innovation Surveys (CIS) for French industry, during...

This paper explores the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and innovation from a firm strategic perspective. Matching Community Innovation Survey data with specific data collected about the CSR behaviour of Luxembourg firms, the authors identify two types of firms...

In this paper we evaluate the private and social rates of return of R?D activities for 21 French manufacturing industries over a 10 years period (1985-1995). We use a well-known methodology mainly based on input-output matrixes to which we add results regarding the innovatory use of capital...

A la fonction traditionnelle de protection des innovations s'ajoute aujourd'hui une dimension stratégique : les entreprises brevètent aussi pour barrer (" bloquer ") la route de l'innovation à leurs concurrents. Nous cherchons à cerner l'utilisation de ce brevet " bloquant ", qui diffère du...