Home base and foreign direct investment in research and development : an investigation into the international allocation of research activity by multinational enterprises : a thesis /

Foreign direct investment (FDI) in research and development (R&D) is an increasingly important element of overall firm strategy in technologically intensive industries. These essays examine a number of questions related to FDI in R&D from both a theoretical and an empirical perspective. The...

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Main Author: Kuemmerle, Walter
Corporate Author: Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration
Format: Thesis Book
Language:English
Published: c1996
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