Rene Belderbos
Biographic Data
| ID | 1521185 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rene Belderbos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rene |
| FAMILY NAME | Belderbos |
| SIGNATURE | BELDERBOS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Maastricht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4083-3387 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Corruption experience and foreign investments
Multinational firms and the quest for global talent
Does Industry Agglomeration Attract Productive Firms? The Role of Product Markets in Adverse Selection
The literature has produced mixed findings on the relationship between industry agglomeration and firm‐level productivity where it concerns the self‐selection of productive firms into locations characterized by different levels of industry agglomeration. We argue that the nature of this self‐selection crucially depends on whether incumbent and entrant firms compete on the same market. Adverse selection of less productive firms into a location onl…
Internal versus external agglomeration advantages in investment location choice
Global location choices for foreign direct investments by MNCs aim to benefit both from the advantages of collocation with other activities of the firm (internal agglomeration) and the advantages of proximity to local industry clusters of similar activities (external agglomeration). We submit that there are important trade-offs between internal and external agglomeration because internal knowledge transfer associated with collocation of various v…
World City Innovation and Service Networks and Economic Growth
In addition to their often-cited role as global service hubs, world cities are also global innovation hubs with their connectivity in knowledge networks crucial for the innovation clusters they harbour. While both aspects of world cities' global connectivity may allow their urban economies to grow, we argue that specialization in one of these two networks may increase economic performance. We provide systematic evidence of this substitution effec…
Research versus development
Large, internationally connected cities are important hubs of innovative activity, yet research on the attractiveness of such ‘global’ cities for research and development (R&D) activities by multinational corporations (MNCs) is scarce. We posit that factors determining cities’ potential to attract R&D investments by MNCs differ depending on the type of R&D investments: research or development. We investigate the heterogeneous determinants of loca…
Whither geographic proximity? Bypassing local R&D units in foreign university collaboration
MNCs often engage in international research collaborations with foreign universities through one of their central R&D laboratories (at headquarters or elsewhere) even though they operate a local R&D unit close to that university, and hence forego the benefits of geographic proximity and local collaboration. Drawing on the knowledge-based theory of the firm, we hypothesize that the choice between distant and local collaboration systematically rela…
Governance and learning in global, regional, and local value chains
Global value chain (GVC) participation is generally seen as an important avenue for developing countries to access new markets and diversify exports, to add value to local industries and to increase employment. For developing country firms it provides opportunities to access knowledge to enhance learning and capability building. However, many firms in developing countries do not directly integrate into GVCs but rather into regional value chains (…
Trademarks, patents and the appropriation strategies of incumbents
Analysis of the relationship between knowledge spillovers and new firm formation in 980 NUTS-3 regions at the industry level shows that regional knowledge stocks represented by patents positively influence new firm formation, but that knowledge protection and appropriation strategies of incumbents discourage it. Knowledge stocks represented by trademarks translate into higher entry rates in the absence of a pronounced appropriation strategy of in…
Do Technology Leaders Deter Inward R&D Investments? Evidence from Regional R&D Location Decisions in Europe
Leading technology intensive firms have incentives to protect knowledge outflows to collocated firms in order to enhance the returns to R&D (Alcácer and Zhao, 2012). In this paper we argue that leading firms’ knowledge protection strategies are likely to discourage other firms from setting up new R&D establishments in their vicinity. Knowledge protection is facilitated by an R&D organization emphasizing internal knowledge flows drawing on complem…
Academic Research Strengths and Multinational Firms' Foreign R&D Location Decisions
Although an expanding literature on university–industry linkages has suggested that proximity to academia can increase the innovative performance of firms, the role of academic research in the R&D location choices of multinational firms has received surprisingly little attention. In this paper we analyze the extent to which academic research in host regions of EU-15 countries attracts R&D investments by multinational firms. We analyze the determi…
Global Fixed Capital Investment by Multinational Firms
We develop and test a model of the simultaneous determination of global gross fixed capital investments by multinational firms. We integrate a model of multi‐product firms choosing optimal manufacturing locations with a model of dynamic investment optimization. Firms adjust capital stocks in each location in accordance with the expected marginal profitability of capital. Analysis of 1504 fixed capital investment decisions by Japanese multinationa…
Heterogeneity in R&D cooperation strategies
Cooperative R&D and firm performance
Backward Vertical Linkages of Foreign Manufacturing Affiliates
Japanese Electronics Multinationals and Strategic Trade Policies
Japanese electronics firms have grown into formidable competitors on world markets but have only seriously expanded their manufacturing presence world-wide since 1985. This volume probes the unique features of Japanese multinationals, and shows how trade policies in the United States and the European Union have shaped the rapid internationalization of Japanese firms in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It will be essential reading for anyone who wa…
Japanese Firms and the Decision to Invest Abroad
The determinants of the decision by Japanese firms to set up manufacturing plants in Southeast Asia, Europe and North America are analyzed using micro-data on the behavior of firms in the electronics industry. While firm-specific intangible assets based on R&D and marketing efforts are positively related to the decision to invest in Europe and North America, investment in Southeast Asia is mainly related to human resources and driven by interfirm…
Backward Vertical Linkages of Foreign Manufacturing Affiliates
Do Technology Leaders Deter Inward R&D Investments? Evidence from Regional R&D Location Decisions in Europe
Leading technology intensive firms have incentives to protect knowledge outflows to collocated firms in order to enhance the returns to R&D (Alcácer and Zhao, 2012). In this paper we argue that leading firms’ knowledge protection strategies are likely to discourage other firms from setting up new R&D establishments in their vicinity. Knowledge protection is facilitated by an R&D organization emphasizing internal knowledge flows drawing on complem…
Governance and learning in global, regional, and local value chains
Global value chain (GVC) participation is generally seen as an important avenue for developing countries to access new markets and diversify exports, to add value to local industries and to increase employment. For developing country firms it provides opportunities to access knowledge to enhance learning and capability building. However, many firms in developing countries do not directly integrate into GVCs but rather into regional value chains (…
Research versus development
Large, internationally connected cities are important hubs of innovative activity, yet research on the attractiveness of such ‘global’ cities for research and development (R&D) activities by multinational corporations (MNCs) is scarce. We posit that factors determining cities’ potential to attract R&D investments by MNCs differ depending on the type of R&D investments: research or development. We investigate the heterogeneous determinants of loca…
Trademarks, patents and the appropriation strategies of incumbents
Analysis of the relationship between knowledge spillovers and new firm formation in 980 NUTS-3 regions at the industry level shows that regional knowledge stocks represented by patents positively influence new firm formation, but that knowledge protection and appropriation strategies of incumbents discourage it. Knowledge stocks represented by trademarks translate into higher entry rates in the absence of a pronounced appropriation strategy of in…
World City Innovation and Service Networks and Economic Growth
In addition to their often-cited role as global service hubs, world cities are also global innovation hubs with their connectivity in knowledge networks crucial for the innovation clusters they harbour. While both aspects of world cities' global connectivity may allow their urban economies to grow, we argue that specialization in one of these two networks may increase economic performance. We provide systematic evidence of this substitution effec…
Academic Research Strengths and Multinational Firms' Foreign R&D Location Decisions
Although an expanding literature on university–industry linkages has suggested that proximity to academia can increase the innovative performance of firms, the role of academic research in the R&D location choices of multinational firms has received surprisingly little attention. In this paper we analyze the extent to which academic research in host regions of EU-15 countries attracts R&D investments by multinational firms. We analyze the determi…
Global Fixed Capital Investment by Multinational Firms
We develop and test a model of the simultaneous determination of global gross fixed capital investments by multinational firms. We integrate a model of multi‐product firms choosing optimal manufacturing locations with a model of dynamic investment optimization. Firms adjust capital stocks in each location in accordance with the expected marginal profitability of capital. Analysis of 1504 fixed capital investment decisions by Japanese multinationa…
Japanese Firms and the Decision to Invest Abroad
The determinants of the decision by Japanese firms to set up manufacturing plants in Southeast Asia, Europe and North America are analyzed using micro-data on the behavior of firms in the electronics industry. While firm-specific intangible assets based on R&D and marketing efforts are positively related to the decision to invest in Europe and North America, investment in Southeast Asia is mainly related to human resources and driven by interfirm…
Japanese Electronics Multinationals and Strategic Trade Policies
Japanese electronics firms have grown into formidable competitors on world markets but have only seriously expanded their manufacturing presence world-wide since 1985. This volume probes the unique features of Japanese multinationals, and shows how trade policies in the United States and the European Union have shaped the rapid internationalization of Japanese firms in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It will be essential reading for anyone who wa…
Backward Vertical Linkages of Foreign Manufacturing Affiliates
Heterogeneity in R&D cooperation strategies
Cooperative R&D and firm performance
Global Fixed Capital Investment by Multinational Firms
We develop and test a model of the simultaneous determination of global gross fixed capital investments by multinational firms. We integrate a model of multi‐product firms choosing optimal manufacturing locations with a model of dynamic investment optimization. Firms adjust capital stocks in each location in accordance with the expected marginal profitability of capital. Analysis of 1504 fixed capital investment decisions by Japanese multinationa…
Academic Research Strengths and Multinational Firms' Foreign R&D Location Decisions
Although an expanding literature on university–industry linkages has suggested that proximity to academia can increase the innovative performance of firms, the role of academic research in the R&D location choices of multinational firms has received surprisingly little attention. In this paper we analyze the extent to which academic research in host regions of EU-15 countries attracts R&D investments by multinational firms. We analyze the determi…
Do Technology Leaders Deter Inward R&D Investments? Evidence from Regional R&D Location Decisions in Europe
Leading technology intensive firms have incentives to protect knowledge outflows to collocated firms in order to enhance the returns to R&D (Alcácer and Zhao, 2012). In this paper we argue that leading firms’ knowledge protection strategies are likely to discourage other firms from setting up new R&D establishments in their vicinity. Knowledge protection is facilitated by an R&D organization emphasizing internal knowledge flows drawing on complem…
Whither geographic proximity? Bypassing local R&D units in foreign university collaboration
MNCs often engage in international research collaborations with foreign universities through one of their central R&D laboratories (at headquarters or elsewhere) even though they operate a local R&D unit close to that university, and hence forego the benefits of geographic proximity and local collaboration. Drawing on the knowledge-based theory of the firm, we hypothesize that the choice between distant and local collaboration systematically rela…
Governance and learning in global, regional, and local value chains
Global value chain (GVC) participation is generally seen as an important avenue for developing countries to access new markets and diversify exports, to add value to local industries and to increase employment. For developing country firms it provides opportunities to access knowledge to enhance learning and capability building. However, many firms in developing countries do not directly integrate into GVCs but rather into regional value chains (…
Trademarks, patents and the appropriation strategies of incumbents
Analysis of the relationship between knowledge spillovers and new firm formation in 980 NUTS-3 regions at the industry level shows that regional knowledge stocks represented by patents positively influence new firm formation, but that knowledge protection and appropriation strategies of incumbents discourage it. Knowledge stocks represented by trademarks translate into higher entry rates in the absence of a pronounced appropriation strategy of in…
World City Innovation and Service Networks and Economic Growth
In addition to their often-cited role as global service hubs, world cities are also global innovation hubs with their connectivity in knowledge networks crucial for the innovation clusters they harbour. While both aspects of world cities' global connectivity may allow their urban economies to grow, we argue that specialization in one of these two networks may increase economic performance. We provide systematic evidence of this substitution effec…
Research versus development
Large, internationally connected cities are important hubs of innovative activity, yet research on the attractiveness of such ‘global’ cities for research and development (R&D) activities by multinational corporations (MNCs) is scarce. We posit that factors determining cities’ potential to attract R&D investments by MNCs differ depending on the type of R&D investments: research or development. We investigate the heterogeneous determinants of loca…
Internal versus external agglomeration advantages in investment location choice
Global location choices for foreign direct investments by MNCs aim to benefit both from the advantages of collocation with other activities of the firm (internal agglomeration) and the advantages of proximity to local industry clusters of similar activities (external agglomeration). We submit that there are important trade-offs between internal and external agglomeration because internal knowledge transfer associated with collocation of various v…
Corruption experience and foreign investments
Multinational firms and the quest for global talent
Does Industry Agglomeration Attract Productive Firms? The Role of Product Markets in Adverse Selection
The literature has produced mixed findings on the relationship between industry agglomeration and firm‐level productivity where it concerns the self‐selection of productive firms into locations characterized by different levels of industry agglomeration. We argue that the nature of this self‐selection crucially depends on whether incumbent and entrant firms compete on the same market. Adverse selection of less productive firms into a location onl…
Business (16 works) · Economics (15 works) · Industrial organization (9 works) · International Business and FDI (7 works) · Multinational corporation (7 works) · Economic geography (6 works) · Firm Innovation and Growth (6 works) · Global trade and economics (6 works) · Innovation Policy and RD (6 works) · International trade (6 works)