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Technological competition, economic performance and strategic behaviour of international firms

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  • Henri Capron
  • Michele Cincera

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This paper analyses the relationship between R&D rivalry, spillovers and productivity at the firm level. A particular attention is put on the way technological spillovers are formalised. The analysis is based upon a data set composed of 625 world-wide R&D-intensive manufacturing firms whose information has been collected for the period 1987-1994. Given the panel data structure of the sample, econometric techniques which deal with both firm's unobserved heterogeneity and weak exogeneity of the right hand-side variables are implemented. The R&D reaction patterns for the main R&D-intensive industries show that if firms are to different degrees sensitive to what competitors allocate to their activities, the behaviours are not homogeneous across industries and among countries. The empirical results give clue that spillover effects influence significantly firm's productivity. Nevertheless the effects differ substantially among the pillars of the Triad. The United States are mainly sensitive to their national stock of spillovers while Japan appears to draw from the international stock. On its side, Europe shows some pains to internalise spillovers.

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  • Henri Capron & Michele Cincera, 2001. "Technological competition, economic performance and strategic behaviour of international firms," Brussels Economic Review, ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles, vol. 169(169), pages 33-62.
    • Handle: RePEc:bxr:bxrceb:y:2001:v:0:i:169:p:33-62
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    1. Michele Cincera, 2005. "Firms' productivity growth and R&D spillovers: An analysis of alternative technological proximity measures," Economics of Innovation and New Technology, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 14(8), pages 657-682.
    2. Aldieri, Luigi & Aprile, Maria Carmela & Vinci, Concetto Paolo, 2015. "R&D Spillovers Effects on strategic behaviour of Large International Firms," MPRA Paper 63402, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    3. Luigi Aldieri & Maria Carmela Aprile & Concetto Paolo Vinci, 2017. "R&D Spillover Effects on the Strategic Behavior of Large International Firms during the World Financial Crisis," International Journal of Business and Management, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 12(11), pages 141-141, October.
    4. Lee, Gwanghoon, 2005. "Direct versus indirect international R&D spillovers," Information Economics and Policy, Elsevier, vol. 17(3), pages 334-348, July.
    5. Lee, Gwanghoon, 2006. "The effectiveness of international knowledge spillover channels," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 50(8), pages 2075-2088, November.
    6. Luigi Aldieri & Marisa Faggini & Concetto Paolo Vinci, 2018. "Knowledge Technology Transfer: A Spatial Analysis within the Triad," International Journal of Business and Management, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 13(9), pages 1-89, August.

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    JEL classification:

    • F23 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - Multinational Firms; International Business
    • L20 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - General
    • O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes

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