Government strategies to attract R&D-intensive FDI |
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Authors: | José Guimón |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Economic Structure and Development Economics, Autonomous University of Madrid, Ctra. de Colmenar km. 15, 28049 Madrid, Spain |
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Abstract: | Competition among countries to attract the research and development (R&D) activities of multinational enterprises has increased substantially during the last years, but the strategies used by governments in this competition still remain largely unexplored. This paper addresses that gap by proposing a taxonomy of the policy instruments available to stimulate inward R&D-intensive foreign direct investment (FDI) and presenting the results of a comparative case study of two EU countries: Spain and Ireland. The main conclusion is that an efficient promotion of R&D-intensive FDI calls for a closer connection between innovation policy and inward investment promotion, which are two policy areas that have traditionally operated rather separately. In addition, investment promotion agencies targeting R&D-intensive FDI are advised to reconfigure the scope of services they provide by placing more emphasis on after-care, since R&D-intensive FDI tends to be evolutionary rather than purely greenfield. |
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Keywords: | R& D FDI Multinational enterprises |
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