Arising from a study requested by the European Commission, DG Research and Innovation, Unit C6, this work looks at the economic impact of firms going abroad for research and development
projects. It focuses on two main issues: why firms would go abroad for R&D efforts and the effects of such internationalization on both the host countries and the home economies of the
involved multinational corporations. The first two chapters provide an introduction and literature review, while later chapters focus on the scarcity of quality data, the structure of
cross-country R&D expenditures, the motivating factors to outsource to a particular country, specifics of the process in the automotive industry and knowledge-intensive business services,
and the role of the global financial crisis in internationalization. Three of the 13 chapters deal with issues arising in Belgium, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Germany, the European Union,
the United States, and India. Some of the contributors played roles in multiple papers, and eight out of nine work in Vienna, for either the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies
or the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology. A two page expansion of acronyms appears at the start of the book. Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
