On the 13th and 14th of November I presented a paper at the Workshop on Green Windows of Opportunity in Emerging Countries: Towards a New Leadership in Green Transformation at Sino-Danish Center in Beijing. Here is the presentation.
With Vito Amendolagine I have contributed to this book edited by Jan Drahokoupil and published by ETUI with a chapter on Chinese Foreign Direct Investments in the European Union.
Here you can download the full book and here is the link to my chapter.
In this article co-authored with Andrea Morrison, we investigate the different catch-up cycles in the global wine sector between 1960 and 2010. Changes in demand opened the first window of opportunity for latecomers, who gradually caught up via path-creating strategies. Incumbents maintained their leadership by aligning their wines to current demand patterns. The entry of China in the wine market can open up a new catch-up cycle.
On 22nd of March I participated at a seminar on Investment and labour strategies of Chinese multinational companies in Europe jointly organized by ETUI and industriAll.
Here is the presentation.
On 17th March I gave a seminar at IKE Innovation, Knowledge and Economic Dynamics Research Group – Aalborg University. The paper was previously presented also at the SIEPI Conference in Palermo, at GREDEG in Nice, at CICALICS Workshop in Beijing, at the 10th China Goes Global Conference in Macerata, at the workshop “Creating Leading Edge Technical Competencies in Chinese Companies – Innovation and Globalization” at the University of Gothenburg and at UNUMerit in Maastricht.
We empirically analyse the host country determinants of Chinese outward foreign direct investments (FDI) for the years 2003 to 2011, using disaggregated data by country and industry. Our aim is to assess the relevance of market seeking, resource seeking and strategic asset-seeking motivations as suggested by the theory on host country determinants of FDI.
On the 11th of April at Queen Mary University of London I gave a keynote speech at the Conference on Local Context and Challenges of Innovation in China.
We study Chinese and Indian multinationals investing in Europe investigating their identity, their characteristics and the association between their features and their international strategies. In relation to the mode of entry, we find that greenfield investments are a more likely option for large-sized companies. Moreover a high propensity for innovation is associated with a high probability to enter with an acquisition and with technological asset-seeking investments.
On 22h October 2015 I presented a paper at the IB Research Seminar Series
Growing internationalization constitutes an opportunity for technological catch up. In this paper we analyze Brazilian, Indian, and Chinese cross-border inventions with EU-27 inventors. Our results suggest that these inventions represent an opportunity for emerging country firms to accumulate technological capabilities, access frontier knowledge, and appropriate the property rights of co-inventions.