Ethnic Innovation and U.S. Multinational Firm Activity
Harvard Business School Finance Working Paper No. 12-006
Harvard Business School Entrepreneurial Management Working Paper No. 12-006
34 Pages Posted: 18 Aug 2011 Last revised: 4 Oct 2013
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Ethnic Innovation and U.S. Multinational Firm Activity
Ethnic Innovation and U.S. Multinational Firm Activity
Date Written: August 1, 2012
Abstract
This paper studies the impact that ethnic innovators have on the global activities of U.S. firms by analyzing detailed data on patent applications and on the operations of the foreign affiliates of U.S. multinational .rms. The results indicate that increases in the share of a firm’s innovation performed by inventors of a particular ethnicity are associated with increases in the share of that firm’s affiliate activity in countries related to that ethnicity. Ethnic innovators also appear to facilitate the disintegration of innovative activity across borders and to allow U.S. multinationals to form new affiliates abroad without the support of local joint venture partners.
Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment, Technology Transfer, Patents, Innovation, Research and Development, Ethnic Networks, Diasporas
JEL Classification: F23, J15, O31, O32, O33
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