The innovation performance of foreign affiliates : evidence from Dutch manufacturing firms

Although multinational companies (MNCs) have increasingly become active in diversifying their technological activities internationally, these activities have rarely been examined with respect to the innovation performance of their affiliates. As foreign affiliates seem to foster innovative activities in host countries, the kind of innovation produced in these firms has hardly been studied. In this context, the paper examines the innovation performance of foreign affiliates with respect to the introduction of ‘real’ innovations, i.e. products that are new to the market (in contrast to ‘imitativ... Mehr ...