The Innovativeness of Foreign Firms in China

Branka Urem (), Ludovico Alcorta () and Tongliang An ()
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Branka Urem: UNU-MERIT
Ludovico Alcorta: Maastricht School of Management
Tongliang An: School of Business, Nanjing University

No 2008-019, MERIT Working Papers from United Nations University - Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT)

Abstract: This paper studies the relationship between foreign ownership and innovations of high novelty in context of advanced developing countries. We develop hypotheses about a direct relationship in terms of two dimensions, propensity and intensity of innovations of high novelty, and a contingency hypothesis about the moderating impact of R&D internationalisation on the relationship with propensity. The analysis is based on innovation survey data on manufacturing firms from Jiangsu province of China. Hypotheses are tested using non-parametric methods. We find that foreign firms do not have a higher propensity of innovations of high novelty, not even when they engage in formal R&D. However, the evidence suggests that foreign firms have a higher intensity of innovations of high novelty than domestic firms.

Keywords: multinational enterprises; foreign firms; innovation; manufacturing; China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F23 L60 O31 O32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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