R&D offshoring and technology learning in emerging economies: Firm-level evidence from the ICT industry

Qu, Zhe, Huang, Can, Zhang, Mingqian and Zhao, Yanyun (2007). R&D offshoring and technology learning in emerging economies: Firm-level evidence from the ICT industry. UNU-MERIT.

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  • Author Qu, Zhe
    Huang, Can
    Zhang, Mingqian
    Zhao, Yanyun
    Title R&D offshoring and technology learning in emerging economies: Firm-level evidence from the ICT industry
    Publication Date 2007
    Publisher UNU-MERIT
    Abstract This paper studies the impact of the R&D offshoring of multinational enterprises on the firms in host emerging economies. We develop a two-stage non-cooperative game to analyze the strategic interaction between multinational and host country enterprises engaged in R&D investment. An empirical analysis of 12,309 manufacturing firms in the ICT industry in China shows that R&D offshoring has a positive effect on the intensity of the R&D of host country firms. However, the magnitude of the impact depends on both the technological and geographical distance between the multinational and host country firms. The policy implications of these findings are that the governments of host country should be cautious about allowing advanced multinational R&D investment in under-developed sectors, but they should encourage such investment in developed sectors; and that local governments should be involved in R&D policy making because the positive impact of multinational R&D offshoring diminishes as the geographical distance between the multinational and host country firms increases.
    Keyword R&D
    Offshoring
    Spillover
    Emerging economies
    JEL F23
    O32
    Copyright Holder UNU-MERIT
    Copyright Year 2007
    ISSN 1871-9872
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