New working paper with Vito Amendolagine and Riccardo Crescenzi.
Here you can download the WP
A new blog post on multi-technology corporations making green foreign direct investments with Vito Amendolagine and Rasmus Lema on LSE Business Review.
Here you can read the post.
With Vito Amendolagine and Xiaolan Fu I have contributed to the Oxford Handbook of China Innovation with a chapter on Chinese Outward Foreign Direct Investments and Innovation (if you don’t have access and would you like to read the chapter, please send me an email).
On October 27th I chaired the RSA Regions Cities Industry Webinar with Riccardo Crescenzi, Oliver Harman, Joaquim Oliveira Martins and Daria Taglioni.
Here you can watch the recording
An article with Vito Amendolagine and Rasmus Lema published in the Journal of Cleaner Production.
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On April 2019 I was invited to participate at a round table on the crisis of ownership competitive advantages at the 7th International Business Conference organized by the John Dunning Centre at the Henley Business School (University of Reading).
Here you can download the ppt of my speech.
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.
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.
This paper explores the location strategies of multinational enterprises (MNEs) from emerging countries (EMNEs) in search for regional strategic assets.The empirical results suggest that EMNEs are attracted by the availability of technological competences only when their subsidiaries pursue more sophisticated and technology-intensive activities.
On 29th January I gave a key note speech at the 3rd Geography of Innovation Conference in Toulouse.
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.
The article on The impact of outward FDI on the performance of Chinese Firms co-authored with Claudio Cozza and Marco Sanfilippo has been featured in The Economist, September 12th 2015.