In search of markets and technology: the role of cross-border knowledge for domestic productivity

IF 2.8 4区管理学 Q2 BUSINESS

Industrial and Corporate Change Pub Date : 2023-08-31 DOI:10.1093/icc/dtad045

Spyros Arvanitis, Florian Seliger, Martin Woerter

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Abstract

Internationalization of research and development (R&D) is a double-edged sword: on the one hand, it is understood as a driving force of global innovation performance; on the other hand, from a national perspective it is often perceived as a threat to domestic efforts. Against this background, we compare the contribution of domestic and international knowledge sourcing to the productivity of Swiss firms. We find a positive productivity effect of knowledge-sourcing activities in geographically close countries (in the European Union [EU]). Domestic knowledge alone or from other world regions does not yield positive productivity effects. We provide evidence that companies that source international knowledge to generate innovative products benefit disproportionately from knowledge sourcing in the EU and that both knowledge- and market-seeking motives may be relevant to this result.

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寻找市场和技术:跨境知识对国内生产力的作用

研发国际化是一把双刃剑：一方面，它被理解为全球创新绩效的驱动力；另一方面，从国家的角度来看，它经常被视为对国内努力的威胁。在此背景下，我们比较了国内和国际知识来源对瑞士企业生产力的贡献。我们发现，在地理位置相近的国家（欧盟），知识来源活动对生产力产生了积极影响。仅凭国内知识或来自世界其他地区的知识不会产生积极的生产力影响。我们提供的证据表明，那些获取国际知识以生产创新产品的公司从欧盟的知识获取中获得了不成比例的利益，而寻求知识和市场的动机可能与这一结果有关。

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5.10

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4.00%

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期刊介绍： The journal covers the following: the internal structures of firms; the history of technologies; the evolution of industries; the nature of competition; the decision rules and strategies; the relationship between firms" characteristics and the institutional environment; the sociology of management and of the workforce; the performance of industries over time; the labour process and the organization of production; the relationship between, and boundaries of, organizations and markets; the nature of the learning process underlying technological and organizational change.