The impact of foreign R&D activities on the MNC’s performance at home: evidence from the case of Swiss manufacturing firms

This paper examines the impact of the MNCs’ internationalisation of R&D activities on their performances/productivity at home. Specifically, using detailed firm-level data for Swiss manufacturing firms, we find that foreign R&D activity of Swiss MNCs is a valuable source of knowledge which i...

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Published inRevue d'économie industrielle pp. 11 - 33
Main Authors Hamida, Lamia Ben, Piscitello, Lucia
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published De Boeck Supérieur 2013
Subjects
Internationalization of R&D
Productivity
productivité
exploitation des connaissances
Knowledge Exploiting R&D
recherche des connaissances
internationalisation de la R&D
Knowledge Seeking R&D
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Summary:This paper examines the impact of the MNCs’ internationalisation of R&D activities on their performances/productivity at home. Specifically, using detailed firm-level data for Swiss manufacturing firms, we find that foreign R&D activity of Swiss MNCs is a valuable source of knowledge which improves their productivity performance at home, but only when firms invest in knowledge-seeking activities. Conversely, R&D activities conducted abroad with knowledge-exploiting purposes seem to weaken the MNC’s productivity at home.JEL codes : F23, O33, O40
ISSN:0154-3229
1773-0198
DOI:10.4000/rei.5613