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Effects of Foreign Ownership on Innovation Activities. Empirical Evidence for 12 European Countries

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In the present study we investigate the relationship between foreign ownership and innovation activities using the firm-level data of the third Community Innovation Survey (CIS) covering 12 European countries. Probit estimates based on 28,000 firms observations show that foreign-owned firms are more innovative than domestic firms, particularly in the new EU member countries. However, results from the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition of the differences in the percentage of innovating firms between foreign-owned and domestic firms reveal that the differences are mainly due to different firm characteristics rather than differences in coefficients. In particular, the dominance of foreign-owned firms in the largest firm size group is the main factor contributing to the gap in the percentage of innovators between foreign-owned firms and domestic firms. Furthermore, using the fractional logit model, we find that in the new EU member countries, foreign ownership has a positive and significant impact on the share of market novelties as well as on the share of new products in turnover. In this case, the results from the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition analysis indicate that the ownership difference in the share of innovative sales is not due to the differences in the observed firms' characteristics.

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  • Martin Falk, 2008. "Effects of Foreign Ownership on Innovation Activities. Empirical Evidence for 12 European Countries," WIFO Studies, WIFO, number 34234, August.
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