Regional innovation and the retention of foreign direct investment: a place-based approach
研究区域创新如何影响外商直接投资（FDI）的留存，通过对中国31个省份的数据进行生存分析，发现区域技术人员供给和知识产权灵活性有助于留住外资企业，但效果因跨国公司研发支出规模而异。
The relationship between regional innovation and foreign direct investment (FDI) has been extensively examined, but the impact of regional innovation on FDI retention has received scant attention. Drawing on the logic of place-based approaches, the paper investigates this impact by conducting survival analyses on data collected across 31 provinces of China. We find that regional technician supply (RTS) and regional intellectual property flexibility (RIPF) help regions retain foreign ventures. However, RTS is less likely to retain the foreign investments of multinational enterprises with large research and development expenditure, while RIPF is more likely to retain them. Theoretical and policy implications are discussed.