Template-type: ReDIF-Article 1.0
Author-Name: Rocha, Frederico
Author-Name: Ruiz, Ana Urraca
Title: Internacionalização da P&D das empresas transnacionais: especialização produtiva nacional e competências tecnológicas
Abstract: This paper aims to add evidence to the literature on the internationalization of R&D of transnational enterprises. It focus on two main topics of the process: (i) the relation between the degree of internationalization and host country technological capabilities, and (ii) the role played by companies´ competencies. Using a database formed by patents filed by US companies in the European Patent Office, the paper shows that: (i) transnational US companies concentrate their technological efforts undertaken outside their home country in those technical fields in which US does not have technological revealed advantage; (ii) patents filed by inventors with residence outside the US are concentrated in the technical fields where US companies hold their core competencies; (iii) patents filed by non- US inventors are still a small fraction of the total core competencies developed by US firms.
Classification-JEL: L16, L23, O14.
Keywords: R&D - Internationalization, Organization; Multinational enterprises.
Pages: 19
Volume: 18
Year: 2002
Month: 1
File-URL: http://www.eco.unicamp.br/docprod/downarq.php?id=719&tp=a
File-Format: Application/pdf
Handle: RePEc:euc:ancoec:v:18:y:2002:p:165-183