Innovation Drivers, Value Chains and the Geography of Multinational Firms in European Regions

Riccardo Crescenzi, Carlo Pietrobelli and Roberta Rabellotti

LEQS – LSE 'Europe in Question' Discussion Paper Series from European Institute, LSE

Abstract: This paper investigates the geography of multinational corporations’ investments in the EU regions. The ‘traditional’ sources of location advantages (i.e. agglomeration economies, market access and labour market conditions) are considered together with innovation and socio-institutional drivers of investments, captured by means of regional “social filter” conditions. The introduction of a wider set of attraction factors makes is possible to empirically assess the different role played by such advantages in the location decision of investments at different stages of the value chain and disentangle the differential role of national vs. local and regional factors. The empirical analysis covers the EU-25 regions and suggests that regional-socio economic conditions are crucially important for an understanding of the location investment decisions in the most sophisticated knowledge-intensive stages of the value chain.

Keywords: Innovation; Multinationals; Systems of Innovation; Value Chains; Regions; European Union (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F21 F23 O33 R12 R58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012-10
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eur, nep-geo, nep-ino, nep-knm, nep-sbm and nep-ure
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Working Paper: Innovation drivers, value chains and the geography of multinational firms in European regions (2012)
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