Innovation drivers, value chains and the geography of multinational firms in European regions

Crescenzi, Riccardo ORCID: 0000-0003-0465-9796, Pietrobelli, Carlo and Rabellotti, Roberta (2012) Innovation drivers, value chains and the geography of multinational firms in European regions. LSE 'Europe in Question' discussion paper series (53/2012). London School of Economics and Political Science, London.

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This paper investigates the geography of multinational corporations’ investments in the EU regions. The ‘traditional’ sources of location advantages (i.e. agglomeration economies, market access and labour market conditions) are considered together with innovation and socio-institutional drivers of investments, captured by means of regional “social filter” conditions. The introduction of a wider set of attraction factors makes is possible to empirically assess the different role played by such advantages in the location decision of investments at different stages of the value chain and disentangle the differential role of national vs. local and regional factors. The empirical analysis covers the EU-25 regions and suggests that regional-socio economic conditions are crucially important for an understanding of the location investment decisions in the most sophisticated knowledgeintensive stages of the value chain.

Item Type:	Monograph (Discussion Paper)
Official URL:	http://www.lse.ac.uk/europeanInstitute/LEQS/LEQSHo...
Additional Information:	© 2012 The Authors
Divisions:	European Institute Geography & Environment Spatial Economics Research Centre
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HF Commerce
JEL classification:	F - International Economics > F2 - International Factor Movements and International Business > F21 - International Investment; Long-Term Capital Movements F - International Economics > F2 - International Factor Movements and International Business > F23 - Multinational Firms; International Business O - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth > O3 - Technological Change; Research and Development > O33 - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes R - Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics > R1 - General Regional Economics > R12 - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity; Interregional Trade R - Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics > R5 - Regional Government Analysis > R58 - Regional Development Policy
Date Deposited:	27 Sep 2013 11:49
Last Modified:	11 Dec 2024 19:08
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/53193

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