Linking the knowledge-capital model of foreign direct investment with national knowledge systems

Arbeitspapier

The paper models the links between public and firm-level knowledge processes. The knowledge-capital (KC) theory assumes that firms use their private knowledge assets to set up foreign subsidiaries. Countries with large outward FDI stocks should have a relative abundance of proprietary knowledge assets. This has not yet been adequately tested. Our model allows to test it by concentrating on national public knowledge inputs that are encapsulated in proprietary knowledge assets of firms. Using a rich international dataset we confirm the basic tenet of the KC theory and show the important role of public knowledge production for outward FDI.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Intellectual Property and Intellectual Capital ; Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives ; Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis ; Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness ; Multinational Firms; International Business
• Thema: Foreign Direct Investment ; Knowledge Transfer and Innovation ; Knowledge Assets ; Public Knowledge Creation ; Multinational Companies ; Empirical test ; world coverage 2000-2020),

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Kox, Henk L.M.
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): KVL Economic Policy Research
• (wo): s'Hertogenbosch
• (wann): 2022

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/266495
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ