| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w24707 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 24707 |
| The IT Revolution and the Globalization of R&D | |
| Lee G. Branstetter; Britta M. Glennon; J. Bradford Jensen | |
| 发表日期 | 2018-06-18 |
| 出版年 | 2018 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Since the 1990s, R&D has become less geographically concentrated, and has seen especially fast growth in emerging markets. One of the distinguishing features of the R&D globalization phenomenon is its concentration within the software/IT domain; the increase in foreign R&D has been largely concentrated within software and IT-intensive multinationals, and new R&D destinations are also more software and IT-intensive multinationals than traditional R&D destinations. In this paper we document three important phenomena: (1) the globalization of R&D, (2) the growing importance of software and IT to firm innovation, and (3) the rise of new R&D hubs. We argue that the shortage in software/IT-related human capital resulting from the large IT- and software-biased shift in innovation drove US MNCs abroad, and particularly drove them abroad to “new hubs” with large quantities of STEM workers who possessed IT and software skills. Our findings support the view that the globalization of US multinational R&D has reinforced the technological leadership of US-based firms in the information technology domain and that multinationals’ ability to access a global talent base could support a high rate of innovation even in the presence of the rising (human) resource cost of frontier R&D. |
| 主题 | International Economics ; International Factor Mobility ; Development and Growth ; Innovation and R& ; D ; Country Studies |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w24707 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
| 引用统计 | |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/582380 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Lee G. Branstetter,Britta M. Glennon,J. Bradford Jensen. The IT Revolution and the Globalization of R&D. 2018. |
| 条目包含的文件 | ||||||
| 文件名称/大小 | 资源类型 | 版本类型 | 开放类型 | 使用许可 | ||
| w24707.pdf（592KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
除非特别说明，本系统中所有内容都受版权保护，并保留所有权利。
