Where to locate innovative activities in global value chains: does co-location matter?

"With the emergence of global value chains (GVCs), production processes are increasingly fragmented and dispersed across different countries. Although many MNEs still exhibit an important ‘home bias’ in their global innovation activities, a growing number of firms have offshored R&D and inn...

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Main Authors: Belderbos, Rene, Sleuwaegen, Leo, Somers, Dieter, De Backer, Koen
Institution:ETUI-European Trade Union Institute
Format: TEXT
Language:English
Published: Paris 2016
OECD
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Online Access:https://www.labourline.org/KENTIKA-19101362124919295449-Where-to-locate-innovative-act.htm
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author Belderbos, Rene
Sleuwaegen, Leo
Somers, Dieter
De Backer, Koen
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Sleuwaegen, Leo
Somers, Dieter
De Backer, Koen
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description "With the emergence of global value chains (GVCs), production processes are increasingly fragmented and dispersed across different countries. Although many MNEs still exhibit an important ‘home bias’ in their global innovation activities, a growing number of firms have offshored R&D and innovative activities to foreign locations. Is the more recent offshoring of R&D and innovation linked to the prior waves of manufacturing offshoring? The fear in OECD economies is that because of co-location effects between production and innovative activities, the loss of certain manufacturing/assembly activities may result in a loss of innovative capabilities (R&D, design, etc.) in the longer-term. The offshoring of R&D and innovation within GVCs poses new challenges to economic policy in OECD and emerging economies. For example, how can countries attract inward R&D investments by foreign MNEs? Should outward R&D investments by MNEs be a concern for the countries in which the MNEs are headquartered?"
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OECD
spellingShingle Belderbos, Rene
Sleuwaegen, Leo
Somers, Dieter
De Backer, Koen
innovation
international relocation of industry
multinational enterprise
value chains
Where to locate innovative activities in global value chains: does co-location matter?
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title Where to locate innovative activities in global value chains: does co-location matter?
topic innovation
international relocation of industry
multinational enterprise
value chains
url https://www.labourline.org/KENTIKA-19101362124919295449-Where-to-locate-innovative-act.htm