Ethnic Innovation and US Multinational Firm Activity

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Foley, C. Fritz; Kerr, William R.
• 署名单位: Harvard University; National Bureau of Economic Research
• 刊物名称: MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0025-1909
• DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1120.1684
• 发表日期: 2013
• 页码: 1529-1544
• 关键词: foreign direct investment; Technology transfer; patents; INNOVATION; research and development; ethnic networks; diasporas

摘要

This paper studies the impact that ethnic innovators have on the global activities of U.S. firms by analyzing I detailed data on patent applications and on the operations of the foreign affiliates of U.S. multinational firms. The results indicate that increases in the share of a firm's innovation performed by inventors of a particular ethnicity are associated with increases in the share of that firm's affiliate activity in countries related to that ethnicity Ethnic innovators also appear to facilitate the disintegration of innovative activity across borders and to allow U.S. multinationals to form new affiliates abroad without the support of local joint venture partners.