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Is Co-Invention Expediting Technological Catch Up? A Study of Collaboration between Emerging Country Firms and EU inventors |
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Elisa Giuliani, Arianna Martinelli and Roberta Rabellotti |
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Emerging Countries, Multinationals, Technological Catch Up, Patents, European Union
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Firms from emerging countries such as Brazil, India, and China (BIC)
are going global, and Europe is attracting around one-third of their
direct outward investments. Growing internationalization constitutes
an opportunity for technological catch up. In this paper we analyze
BIC firms’ cross-border inventions with European Union (EU-27) actors,
during the period 1990-2012. Our results suggest that cross-border
inventions represent an opportunity for BIC firms to accumulate
technological capabilities, access frontier knowledge, and appropriate
the property rights of co-inventions. This paper contributes to the
understanding of the catching up process by emerging country firms,
and offers some policy recommendations.
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