What factors determine the mode of overseas R&D by multinationals? Empirical evidence

By Banri Ito, Ryuhei Wakasugi. 2007

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management

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The multinational enterprise as a source of international knowledge flows: Direct evidence from Italy (2010, background): “The literature on the internationalisation of R&D suggests that there is a growing willingness to locate affiliate R&D facilities close to leading centres of research and innovation specifically with a view to absorbing learning spillovers from geographical proximity to such sites (Serapio and Dalto”
The Internationalization of R&D (2011, background): “Ito and Wakasugi (2007) revisit this topic using data on Japanese MNEs during the late 1990s, and find that such firms are more likely to establish standalone overseas R&D labs if they are more R&D-intensive in general and that they to locate such labs in countries with abundant R&D-related human…”
The role of patent protection in (clean/green) technology transfer (2010, unknown): “Ito and Wakasugi (2007) distinguish between different types of FDI.”
The effects of global knowledge reservoirs on the productivity of multinational enterprises: The role of international depth and breadth (2012, methodology): “Katila and Ahuja (2002) suggest that there are limits to the new ideas that can be created by recombining the same knowledge set.”
What determines the location choice of R&D activities by multinational firms? (2013, background): “The literature on the internationalisation of R&D suggests that knowledge-sourcing has become an important motivation for establishing R&D activities abroad (Florida, 1997; Frost, 2001; von Zedtwitz and Gassmann, 2002; Ambos, 2005; Ito and Wakasugi, 2007; Belderbos et al., 2008).”