Roberta Rabellotti on the Knowledge Shopping Spree of Chinese and Indian Multinationals

In the beginning of April Margrethe Vestager the EU competition chief urged European countries to protect companies from potential Chinese takeovers during the Covid-19 pandemic. Despite the current situation, mergers and acquisitions by emerging markets multinational enterprises (EMNEs) are not a new phenomenon. Often, such foreign direct investments (FDIs) have knowledge-seeking motives, i.e. emerging market companies aim at acquiring technical knowledge with the investment. 

In this episode, I discuss this phenomenon with Roberta Rabellotti, Professor of Economics at the University of Pavia in Italy. Roberta has been looking into such acquisitions and which effect they have on EMNEs innovation performance.

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📖 Read the article: Chinese and Indian MNEs’ shopping spree in advanced countries. How good is it for their innovative output? by Vito Amendolagine, Elisa Giuliani, Arianna Martinelli and Roberta Rabellotti, Journal of Economic Geography