The influence of international dispersed vs. home-based R&D on innovation performance


Peters, Bettina ; Schmiele, Anja


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URL: http://ub-madoc.bib.uni-mannheim.de/3102
URN: urn:nbn:de:bsz:180-madoc-31029
Dokumenttyp: Arbeitspapier
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Titel einer Zeitschrift oder einer Reihe: None
Sprache der Veröffentlichung: Englisch
Einrichtung: Sonstige Einrichtungen > ZEW - Leibniz-Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung
MADOC-Schriftenreihe: Veröffentlichungen des ZEW (Leibniz-Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung) > ZEW Discussion Papers
Fachgebiet: 330 Wirtschaft
Fachklassifikation: JEL: F23 O32 ,
Normierte Schlagwörter (SWD): Deutschland , Innovation , Produktinnovation , Forschung und Entwicklung , Globalisierung , Schätzung
Freie Schlagwörter (Englisch): R&D , internationalisation , innovation performance , decentralisation
Abstract: Recent years have shown a surge of firms globalising their innovation activities in order to gain from international knowledge. This paper evaluates this strategy by investigating whether firms with international R&D are more innovative than firms doing R&D only in their home country. One main novelty is that we shed light on two competing hypotheses whether stronger dispersed international R&D activities hamper or stimulate innovation. Second, we employ two well-established market-based indicators for innovation (introduction of and sales growth rates due to new products) instead of looking at inventions (patents). Using German CIS data for about 2100 firms, the econometric results show that firms with international R&D are more likely to launch new products (firm and market novelties) than firms with home-based R&D only. They are also more successful in terms of higher sales growth with firm novelties. However, given the introduction of a market novelty, the location of R&D doesn’t matter for the sales growth with market novelties. The results concerning the degree of R&D internationalisation are mixed: The likelihood of introducing firm novelties increases with a stronger dispersion of foreign R&D activities (for market novelties only up to a specific point). The relationship between degree of R&D internationalisation and innovation success turns out to be inverse u-shaped.
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