The Innovative Performance Of The World'S Largest Firms: Some New Evidence‡
- 1 January 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Economics of Innovation and New Technology
- Vol. 2 (2) , 91-102
- https://doi.org/10.1080/10438599200000007
Abstract
Data on R & D expenditures and US patenting in the world's 660 largest, technologically active firms both show a linear relation between firm size and the volume of innovative activities, despite some inconsistencies between the two measures. Technological diversity increases with firm size, but relatively weakly, especially in R & D-intensive sectors. Sectoral variations in the comparative technological advantage of large firms based in Japan, the USA and W. Europe are better explained by variations in rivalry in their home market than by variations in their size.Keywords
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