228 research outputs found
Multinazionali e creazione di legami con imprese e università in Italia
No full textQuesto lavoro valuta in che misura le multinazionali estere siano in grado di sviluppare collegamenti tecnologici con le imprese e le università locali. In particolare, data la ben nota limitatezza dell’Italia nell’attrarre investimenti esteri specie nel campo della R&S (cfr. fra gli altri Dachs et al., 2014), ci si chiede se le multinazionali estere siano davvero da considerare delle fonti fondamentali di conoscenza e spillover tecnologici cui il sistema innovativo italiano può attingere per accelerare sulla strada del cambiamento strutturale e dello sviluppo competitivo. Per dare risposta a tali quesiti, alcuni studi recenti hanno utilizzato la ricchezza informativa dell’indagine Istat denominata RS1, sulla ricerca e sviluppo (R&S) delle
imprese (Bonaccorsi e Perani, 2014; Cozza e Zanfei, 2014, 2015; Cozza, Perani e Zanfei, 2016). Da questa indagine si ricavano informazioni dettagliate sulla R&S, riguardanti non solo la quantità totale delle spese in R&S e degli addetti alla ricerca o la tipologia di tali spese, ma anche la tipologia delle imprese coinvolte, la localizzazione geografica delle loro attività di ricerca e, appunto, i legami tecnologici sviluppat
Multinational firms and the pursuit of social benefits
No full textIt is argued that a new actor is emerging in international business, which can be dubbed “Social Multinational”, that is a blend of international rent-creation and pursuit of social objectives. However, it would be misleading to state that the emergence of Social Multinationals will be the natural outcome of a market driven process. Too much is left to the understanding and sensitiveness of individual entrepreneurs. Signals of the emergence of this new and promising breed are still very weak. Important institutional innovations will have to be enacted to favour its strengthening and growt
Patterns of Collaborative Innovation in the US Telecommunications Industry After Divestiture
No full textMultinazionali, innovazione e produttività: vecchi e nuovi paradigmi e implicazioni per la dinamica industriale
No full textTechnological Alliances Between Weak and Strong Firms: Cooperative Ventures with Asymmetric Competences
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The cross border R&D activity of Italian business firms
No full textUsing data from the ISTAT-RS1 Survey we explore inward and outward R&D activities of different categories of firms resident in Italy in 2001-2010. From this perspective we provide detailed evidence of the role played by this country in the global creation and transmission of technology. First, foreign owned multinationals are the most active in cross-border transactions of knowledge but hold a low and decreasing share in national R&D expenditure. This trend reveals on the one hand that the Italian economy is a poorer and poorer attractor of high value added investments from abroad; and on the other hand that national companies, and particularly local SMEs not belonging to international groups, have significantly increased their R&D efforts over the past decade. Second, although outward expenditures of Italian companies increased substantially, R&D performed abroad remains a minor component of business research activities, and is due to a small number of firms investing in a few destination countries. We argue that this paucity of outward R&D activity might hinder both “asset exploiting” and “asset seeking” strategies of Italian firms. Third, we find a strong positive correlation between outward R&D and other innovative activities, including domestic research and R&D commissioned to foreign affiliates. By contrast, in the case of foreign owned firms active in Italy, we find that outward R&D is negatively correlated with intra-group technical cooperation
L'impatto delle multinazionali sui Paesi ospiti: il problema della creazione di legami a monte e a valle con le economie locali
No full textPlaying around an oxymoron: international business with a human face
No full textThis paper explores the grey area that lays between some consolidated analytical concepts, namely: spillovers, corporate responsibility, social cooperation and non-governmental organizations. It is in this grey area that “social multinationals” can be placed and examined. Scattered evidence is provided to illustrate the emergence of this relatively new
phenomenon
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