Key Characteristics in the Choice of International Technology Transfer Mode

Davidson, William H.; McFetridge, D. G.

doi:10.1057/palgrave.jibs.8490448

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“…The international nature of the relationship increases the complexity and uncertainty involved, and one example is that the enforcement of intellectual property rights differs between countries, thus increasing the risk related to international technology alliances (Kranenburg et al 2014). In addition, monitoring the relationship with partners in countries with a large institutional distance is difficult and costly, and the distance also makes conflict resolution more difficult (Davidson and McFetridge 1985). The cultural distance has been found to be negatively related to performance as it increases the risk of mistrust, misunderstandings, miscommunication and conflicts (Glaister and Buckley 1999;Kim and Parkhe 2009;Makino et al 2007).…”

Section: International Coopetition For Innovationmentioning

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International coopetition for innovation: Are the benefits worth the challenges?

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International coopetition has rarely been studied in relation to innovation. Further exploration of effects of international coopetition, i.e. the pursuit of simultaneous cooperation and competition, on a firm's innovation performance is especially important as such a relationship is challenging with a high propensity to fail. This observation formed the point of departure for this study, which aims to increase the understanding of the effects of international coopetition on firm innovativeness and how these effects are conditioned on the magnitude of the organizational adjustments a firm introduces. We use an unbalanced panel of 9839 firms that participated in four waves of the Swedish Community Innovation Survey between 2008 and 2014 as our empirical base. We illustrate that firms that cooperate with competitors internationally are more likely to exhibit higher propensity to introduce radical innovations, yet this effect is conditioned upon the magnitude of organizational adjustments. Overall, our study contributes to the understanding of the implications of international coopetition and what a firm needs to benefit from it.

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Section: International Coopetition For Innovationmentioning

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“…Flows of codified knowledge often occur through impersonal means, such as patents and licenses. Several studies consider patents and licenses to measure exploitation of know-how in foreign markets (Davidson & McFetridge, 1985;Telesio, 1979). We measure firm participation in the international markets for technology using a dummy variable that takes the value 1 if the firm has sold a patent or licensed a technology in a foreign country, and 0 otherwise.…”

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Trapped or spurred by the home region? The effects of potential social capital on involvement in foreign markets for goods and technology

2012

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Drawing on social capital theory and the international business literature, we argue that domestic geography, in terms of localized potential social capital, facilitates individual firms' awareness of business opportunities, including knowledge related to involvement in the foreign markets for goods and technology, thereby enhancing firms' involvement in those foreign markets. When potential social capital reaches a certain threshold, it may work to trap firms into operating only within their home regions, thus reducing involvement in foreign markets. We conjecture that firms' research and development investment moderates the relationship between potential social capital and degree of involvement in foreign markets, but given the very different properties of the two markets, with different signs for each market: a positive moderation effect for the markets for goods, and a negative effect for the markets for technology. We find empirical support for our arguments based on a representative sample of around 2000 Italian firms.

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“…19 To this e¤ect I add the interaction of trade costs with international experience to the previous speci…cations. I use …rm size and number of a¢ liates as proxies for experience.…”

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Asymmetric effects of trade costs on entry modes: Firm level evidence

Tekin‐Koru

2012

European Economic Review

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Standard foreign direct investment (FDI) theory suggests that falling trade costs should discourage horizontal FDI. Most FDI is horizontal. Yet, the world witnessed an FDI boom in 1990s, a period of striking falls in trade barriers. This paper carries out an empirical analysis with rich, …rm-level data on the activities of Swedish multinationals around the globe in manufacturing sectors from 1987 to 1998 to shed light on this apparent con ‡ict. The analysis is based on the predictions of a recent literature with an industrial organization (IO) angle: Trade costs have asymmetric e¤ects on foreign expansion modes. This view posits that falling trade costs encourage entry realized as mergers and acquisitions (M&As), one of the potential explanations for the con ‡ict between received theory and recent trends in FDI. Empirical results con…rm the …ndings of this recent literature and add to it by testing its extensions.JEL Classi…cation: F21, F23, L2

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Key Characteristics in the Choice of International Technology Transfer Mode

Cited by 353 publications

References 18 publications

International coopetition for innovation: Are the benefits worth the challenges?

International coopetition for innovation: Are the benefits worth the challenges?

Trapped or spurred by the home region? The effects of potential social capital on involvement in foreign markets for goods and technology

Asymmetric effects of trade costs on entry modes: Firm level evidence

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