Outward foreign direct investment and domestic innovation efforts: Evidence from India

Ketan Reddy, Subash Sasidharan and Nadia Doytch ()

Journal of Economics and Business, 2022, vol. 122, issue C, No S0148619522000406

Abstract: This paper examines the role of outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) by Indian firms on domestic firms' R&D using unique firm-level data for 2008–2018. While correcting for endogeneity arising from the sample selection, we apply panel data models to evaluate the OFDI and domestic R&D nexus. Our empirical analysis highlights the presence of positive impact of OFDI on the firm's decision to undertake R&D activities. Further, we find that irrespective of the mode of OFDI, i.e., both wholly-owned subsidiaries and joint ventures encourages firms to participate in R&D activities. However, only OFDI in the form of wholly-owned subsidiaries increases the R&D intensity of the parent firms' R&D activities.

Keywords: OFDI; R&D; Manufacturing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F14 F21 O3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0148619522000406
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:jebusi:v:122:y:2022:i:c:s0148619522000406

DOI: 10.1016/j.jeconbus.2022.106084

Access Statistics for this article

Journal of Economics and Business is currently edited by Emanuele Bajo and Moritz Ritter

More articles in Journal of Economics and Business from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().