Title: Developing Innovation - The Impact of MNC R&D Labs on Domestic Innovation in India

Abstract: India has been an R&D hub for American and European firms, which have set up centres across the country since 1985. This paper investigates the nature of the relationship between patenting by these R&D laboratories and local Indian entities engaged in innovation. Studying this relationship through a model of horizontal spillovers offers insights into the global distribution of R&D. Using a novel data set scraped from the Indian Patent Database (InPASS) on patent applications filed between 1990 and 2019, I study the impact that patenting by the R&D centres has on local patenting activity. Linking the results to literature on spillovers of FDI, I investigate the mechanisms through which these spillovers occur. We use the results to highlight the policy implications of the globalisation of knowledge production for developing countries.

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