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The effects of production offshoring on R&D and innovation in the home country
Dachs, Bernhard; Ebersberger, Bernd - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011392629
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The effects of production offshoring on R&D and innovation in the home country
Dachs, Bernhard; Ebersberger, Bernd; Kinkel, Steffen; … - 2014
We investigate the effects of production offshoring on the innovation activities of manufacturing firms in the home … offshoring firms on average employ a higher share of R&D and design personnel, introduce new products more frequently to the … market, and invest more frequently in advanced process technologies compared to non-offshoring firms. Concerns that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010234572
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Innovation and the international firm structure : theory and evidence from German firm-level data
Hansen, Thorsten - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003952118
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The Changing Geography of Clinical Research : A Critical Analysis of Its Drivers
Häussler, Carolin - 2016
Research and development activities have become more and more internationalized with emerging economies playing an increasingly important role. This phenomenon is particularly debated in the pharmaceutical industry where (western‐) pharmaceutical companies have started to offshore clinical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012982066
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Innovation, Product-Cycle Trade, and the Cross-Country Distribution of Income
French, Scott - School of Economics, UNSW Business School - 2014
This paper develops a quantitative, multi-country model of endogenous growth, international trade, and international knowledge flows in order to understand how access to both foreign products and technologies, together, influences innovation incentives and the world distribution of income. An...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010775239
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Economies of Scale, International Capital Mobility, and North-South Inequality
Benarroch, Michael; Gaisford, James D. - 1998
This paper develops a model of North-South trade with a continuum of goods, external economies of scale and international capital mobility. The North-South wage gap must exceed any difference in labour quality for South to overcome the established external economies in North. In equilibrium,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014077288
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Innovation, Product-Cycle Trade, and the Cross-Country Distribution of Income
French, Scott - 2014
This paper develops a quantitative, multi-country model of endogenous growth, international trade, and international knowledge flows in order to understand how access to both foreign products and technologies, together, influences innovation incentives and the world distribution of income. An...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013054532
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Innovation offshoring with fully endogenous growth
Davis, Colin; Hashimoto, Ken'ichi - 2019
investigates the implications of innovation offshoring for productivity growth in a two-country framework that features a tension … increase in net offshoring flows in innovation from the asset-wealthy country to the asset-poor country, and potentially with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012024736
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Innovation Offshoring with Fully Endogenous Growth
Davis, Colin - 2019
investigates the implications of innovation offshoring for productivity growth in a two-country framework that features a tension … increase in net offshoring flows in innovation from the asset-wealthy country to the asset-poor country, and potentially with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870083
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Innovation and Foreign Technology in Italy,1861-2011
Amidei, Federico Barbiellini; Cantwell, John; … - Banca d'Italia - 2011
The paper explores the long run evolution of Italy's performance in technological innovation as a function of international technology transfer, reconstructing the different phases and dimensions of Italian innovative activity, tracking the transfer of foreign technological knowledge through a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009364460