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Does Excellence in Academic Research Attract Foreign R&D?

Belderbos, Rene; Leten, Bart; Suzuki, Shinya - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2009

We examine the role of host countries’ academic research strengths in global R&D location decisions by multinational firms. While we expect that a firm’s propensity to perform R&D in a host country increases with the strength of local academic research, firms are expected to be...

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Technological activities and their impact on the financial performance of the firm: Exploitation and exploration within and between firms

Belderbos, Rene; Faems, Dries; Leten, Bart; Van Looy, Bart - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2009

This paper analyzes the consequences for financial performance of technology strategies categorized along two … dimensions: (1) explorative versus exploitative and (2) solitary versus collaborative. The financial performance implications of … the performance implications of firms’ technology strategies are derived. These hypotheses are tested empirically on a …

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