The Role of R&D Offshoring in Knowledge Diffusion: New Evidence from China

发布时间:2018-04-11

ShanghaiTech SEM Working Paper No. 2018-008


Guangwei Li

ShanghaiTech University - School of Entrepreneurship and Management


Abstract

While R&D offshoring to emerging economies creates new opportunities for knowledge creation and acquisition, it may also increase the risk of losing critical technological knowledge to indigenous competitors in the host country. Nearly every prior empirical study has shown that ...


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Keywords: R&D offshoring, knowledge spillovers, difference in differences, patent citations



Date Written: October, 2017


Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3160519