The availability of new internationally-harmonized innovation survey data collected from OECD countries has created … some interesting opportunities for studying the following two key areas: (1) the determinants of innovation behavior at … firm level, and (2) innovation as an important factor contributing to the economic growth. This paper looks at the …

countries. We look at innovation inputs, outputs, and examine how strong foreign-owned enterprises are embedded in the … innovations systems of their host countries. We find that foreign ownership causes no differences in innovation input, but yields … a higher innovation output and higher labour productivity. In four of the five countries, affiliates of foreign …