R&amp;D Offshoring and the Productivity Growth of European Regions

Castellani, Davide; Pieri, Fabio

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“…UK) industry. More generally, Castellani and Pieri (2013) find that European regions from which firms perform R&D offshoring have higher productivity growth. They therefore argue that the concerns of R&D offshoring leading to 'hollowing out' of European competitiveness are overstated, and that European public policy should encourage firms to engage in global R&D projects and access complementary assets and technologies abroad.…”

Section: Effects Of Location and Distancementioning

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Reverse international knowledge transfer in the MNE: (Where) does affiliate performance boost parent performance?

2016

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We examine the extent to which the knowledge or technological capability of foreign affiliates actually enhances the performance of their parent companies. Our results draw on a firm-level panel of more than 1,600 multinationals and more than 4,000 of their overseas affiliates, covering 46 home and host countries. We find considerable evidence of enhanced parent productivity as a result of their affiliates' performance, which we interpret as evidence of reverse knowledge transfer from affiliates to parents. This effect is robust to different tests including IV estimation and a falsification exercise based on unconnected 'matched' affiliates. We find that both physical and strategic location markedly affects the affiliate-parent relationship, and that distance reduces the positive impact that affiliate performance has on that of the parent. HighlightsWe link effective technology sourcing to firm performance. While location matters, the position of the affiliate within the parent company determines effective technology sourcing. We develop a "falsification test" to confirm the importance of the parent-affiliate relationship.

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Section: Effects Of Location and Distancementioning

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Reverse international knowledge transfer in the MNE: (Where) does affiliate performance boost parent performance?

2016

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“…By promoting technological competitiveness or active price competitiveness, innovation serves as the main driver of productivity, playing a critical factor in explaining the growth differentials of economies (Crespi and Pianta, 2008). Most empirical studies examining the R&D-productivity nexus reach a consensus for a significantly positive relation using disaggregated and aggregated data, e.g., firm-level (Griffith et al, 2004;Hall, 2011a), industry-level (Ngai and Samaniego, 2011), and region-level (Castellani and Pieri, 2013) data. Thus, most countries, especially those in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), have placed greater emphasis on R&D activity since the 1980s.…”

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R&D specialization and manufacturing productivity growth: A cross-country study

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Chu

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Japan and the World Economy

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“…as their unit of analysis (among others see Castellani and Pieri, 2013;Crescenzi et al, 2014;Ramasamy et al, 2012). 4 The first year covered by the dataset (2003) is used as the basis for the calculation of the (lagged) cumulative number of investments and therefore is not included in the empirical analysis.…”

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Regional strategic assets and the location strategies of emerging countries’ multinationals in Europe

Crescenzi

Pietrobelli

Rabellotti

2016

European Planning Studies

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This paper explores the location strategies of Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) from emerging countries (EMNEs) in search for regional strategic assets. The analysis is based on a systematic comparison between EMNEs and multinationals from advanced countries (AMNEs) in order to unveil similarities and differences between these two major sources of foreign investments into the regions of the European Union. The empirical results suggest that EMNEs follow a distinct logic in their location strategies because they are attracted by the availability of technological competences only when their subsidiaries pursue more sophisticated and technology-intensive activities. Conversely EMNEs share some behavioural similarities with AMNEs in their response to the spatial agglomeration of investments. The paper is organized as follows. The next section reviews the literature dealing with the location of MNEs, introducing the determinants analysed in the empirical analysis with special reference to the expected behavioural differences between AMNEs and EMNEs.Section 3 introduces the empirical strategy and the dataset. The empirical results are presented in Section 4. Section 5 concludes with some policy considerations. A FRAMEWORK FOR COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS: MNEs AND THEIR LOCATION DRIVERSThere is a widespread consensus in the literature that the understanding of the location behavior of MNEs is still underdeveloped. Referring to the Ownership-LocationInternalization (OLI) paradigm developed by Dunning (1977), the literature has dealt widely with the questions related to the why a firm becomes a multinational (O) and how it carries out its international adventure (I) but so far the discussion about where it goes to internationalize its activities (L) has remained rather fuzzy (Iammarino and McCann, 2013;McCann and Mudambi, 2005).

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R&D Offshoring and the Productivity Growth of European Regions

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Cited by 20 publications

References 44 publications

Reverse international knowledge transfer in the MNE: (Where) does affiliate performance boost parent performance?

Reverse international knowledge transfer in the MNE: (Where) does affiliate performance boost parent performance?

R&D specialization and manufacturing productivity growth: A cross-country study

Regional strategic assets and the location strategies of emerging countries’ multinationals in Europe

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