Global engagement and the innovation activities of firms

被引:104
作者
Criscuolo, Chiara [3 ]
Haskel, Jonathan E. [4 ]
Slaughter, Matthew J. [1 ,2 ]
机构
[1] Tuck Sch Business Dartmouth, Hanover, NH USA
[2] NBER, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
[3] London Sch Econ, Ctr Econ Performance, London, England
[4] Univ London Imperial Coll Sci Technol & Med, Sch Business, CEPR, London SW7 2AZ, England
基金
英国工程与自然科学研究理事会; 英国经济与社会研究理事会; 美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
Multinational firms; Exporting; Knowledge and technological change; RESEARCH-AND-DEVELOPMENT; PRODUCTIVITY; TECHNOLOGY; US; SPILLOVERS; PATENTS; TRADE; PERFORMANCE; COUNTRIES; MODELS;
D O I
10.1016/j.ijindorg.2009.07.012
中图分类号
F [经济];
学科分类号
02 ;
摘要
Globally engaged firms (multinational enterprises or exporters) tend to have higher productivity than their purely-domestic counterparts. We examine a UK firm data set where we have measures of global engagement linked to innovation/knowledge outputs, knowledge investments, and sources of existing knowledge. We find that globally engaged firms innovate more. But this is not just because globally engaged firms use more researchers. It is also because they learn more from their intra-firm worldwide pool of information (consistent with many recent theories of multi-nationals) and from suppliers. customers and universities. We also find that the relative importance of knowledge sources varies systematically with the type of innovation. (C) 2009 Published by Elsevier B.V.
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页码:191 / 202
页数:12
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