Government strategies to attract R&D-Intensive FDI

Competition among countries and regions to attract the R&D activities of multinational enterprises has increased substantially during the last years, but the strategies used by governments in this competition remain largely unexplored. This paper proposes a taxonomy of the main policy instrument...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Guimón, José
Tipo de recurso: informe técnico
Fecha de publicación:2007
País:España
Institución:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/56466
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/56466
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:R&D
FDI
Multinational enterprises
I+D
IED
Empresas multinacionales
Gobiernos
Empresas
5311 Organización y Dirección de Empresas
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Sumario:Competition among countries and regions to attract the R&D activities of multinational enterprises has increased substantially during the last years, but the strategies used by governments in this competition remain largely unexplored. This paper proposes a taxonomy of the main policy instruments available to stimulate inward R&D-intensive FDI and presents the results of a comparative case-study of two European countries: Spain and Ireland. The main conclusion is that an efficient promotion of R&D-intensive FDI calls for a closer coordination between innovation policy and inward investment promotion, which are two policy areas that have traditionally operated rather independently from each other. In addition, inward investment agencies targeting R&D-intensive FDI are advised to reconfigure the scope of services they provide by placing more emphasis on after-care, since R&D-intensive FDI tends to be evolutionary rather than greenfield.