Patent protection, strategic FDI and location choices: Empirical evidence from French subsidiaries location choices in emerging economies

International Journal of the Economics of Business

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 329-346

  Pfister, Etienne ^a   Deffains, Bruno ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Conditional Logit; Location Choices; Patent

Indexed keywords

EID: 28144455344     PISSN: 13571516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13571510500299458     Document Type: Article

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