Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
submittedVersion
Publication Date
9-2012
Abstract
Prior literature has established that international collaboration on R&D is an important means for generating new and impactful ideas through the cross-border integration of knowledge. We show that cross-country collaboration improves not just the resulting ideas, but also has a long-term benefit for the involved inventors in terms of continuing to generate higher-impact ideas in the future. However, our results also show that the improved performance of specific inventors in a multinational corporation subsidiary does not translate to broader subsidiary-level capabilities at innovation. One possible explanation might be that inventors obtaining international exposure often do not develop collaborative ties with other inventors in the subsidiary, favouring instead to collaborate internationally on subsequent R&D projects.
Keywords
emerging economies, patents, multinational corporations, international collaboration
Discipline
Business | Strategic Management Policy | Technology and Innovation
Research Areas
Strategy and Organisation
Publication
Journal of Economic Geography
Volume
12
Issue
5
First Page
943
Last Page
968
ISSN
1468-2702
Identifier
10.1093/jeg/lbs025
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Citation
ALNUAIMI, Tufool; SINGH, Jasjit; and GEORGE, Gerard.
Not with my own: Long-term effects of cross-country collaboration on subsidiary innovation in emerging economies versus advanced economies. (2012). Journal of Economic Geography. 12, (5), 943-968.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/4658
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Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lbs025