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Domestic and Foreign Business R&D Expenditure: Is There a Crowding Out?

In recent years, multinational enterprises have built up considerable research and development (R&D) activities at locations outside their home countries. This trend has raised fears that overseas R&D may substitute similar activities in the home countries. To test this assumption, this paper investigates the relationship between overseas and domestic business R&D expenditure for the manufacturing sector of a number of countries in the period 2003 to 2007. The econometric analysis gives no evidence that overseas R&D expenditure substitutes domestic R&D. Thus, the results do not support the assumption that multinational firms move R&D to locations abroad to reduce their R&D efforts in the home countries.