. Adopting new production technologies and realizing synergy effects might allow cost reduction, product innovation and product … upgrading. Even if GVCs represent a rich environment for innovation activities, the extent to which knowledge is created and … heterogeneous innovation capacities for the firms involved. Differences in the forms of governance underlying buyer …

This paper provides an integrated analysis of multinational companies’ global production and innovation. We establish … of production, basic innovation and applied innovation, under asymmetric complementarities across these three activities … and quality, and offshore innovation to more countries, including both countries with and without production affiliates …

This paper investigates how the presence of foreign direct investment (FDI) contributes to domestic innovation with a … green innovation of domestic firms in the European Union, mediated through foreign subsidiaries operating in close proximity …. Policy efforts aiming to foster green innovation should therefore prioritise attracting foreign investors with strong …