R&D offshoring has increasingly involved emerging countries as host locations and promoted a greater fragmentation of R&D activities across borders. As a result, a subtle international division of labor in knowledge production has yielded a fine-slicing of R&D activities with the highest valueadded activities located in the most advanced countries and the lowest value-added activities in emerging countries. However, no study, to our knowledge, has investigated whether finely sliced foreign R&D activities complement each other in terms of greater knowledge production at home. Drawing on a rich dataset, we estimate a regional knowledge production function and apply a direct complementarity test. Our results suggest that the global fragmentation of R&D activities produces synergic effects on the knowledge production of the home investing OECD regions when R&D activities are optimally rather than randomly located.

D'Agostino, L., Santangelo, G. (2012). The Global Fragmentation of R&D Activities: The home region perspective. In DRUID working paper (pp.1-27). Copenhagen : Centre for Industrial Economics.

The Global Fragmentation of R&D Activities: The home region perspective

D'Agostino, LM
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2012

Abstract

R&D offshoring has increasingly involved emerging countries as host locations and promoted a greater fragmentation of R&D activities across borders. As a result, a subtle international division of labor in knowledge production has yielded a fine-slicing of R&D activities with the highest valueadded activities located in the most advanced countries and the lowest value-added activities in emerging countries. However, no study, to our knowledge, has investigated whether finely sliced foreign R&D activities complement each other in terms of greater knowledge production at home. Drawing on a rich dataset, we estimate a regional knowledge production function and apply a direct complementarity test. Our results suggest that the global fragmentation of R&D activities produces synergic effects on the knowledge production of the home investing OECD regions when R&D activities are optimally rather than randomly located.
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R&D fine-slicing; R&D optimal location; home region knowledge production; emerging countries
English
DRUID - Innovation and Competitiveness: Dynamics of Organizations, Industries, Systems and Regions
2012
DRUID working paper
978-87-7873-334-4
2012
2012
06
1
27
https://wp.druid.dk/wp/20120006.pdf
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D'Agostino, L., Santangelo, G. (2012). The Global Fragmentation of R&D Activities: The home region perspective. In DRUID working paper (pp.1-27). Copenhagen : Centre for Industrial Economics.
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