This research project will create a situational picture of the effects of foreign investment on strategic and critical intangible assets. The results of the project will help to outline how strategic/critical intangible capital can be defined, what effects foreign investment has on them, and how current or future policy measures can prevent undesirable outcomes related to the transfer of intangible assets to foreign ownership.
The project aims to answer the following research questions:
- How are strategic/critical intangible assets defined?
- How much, in which sectors and from which countries have foreign direct investments, i.e., company founding and transactions, been made to Finland in the last ten years?
- What is the significance of intangible rights in sectors where foreign direct investments have been made?
- What is the economic significance of intangible rights in companies that have been the target of transactions?
- What is the importance of a company’s intangible assets when making an investment or transaction decision?
- How much, from which sectors and to which countries have intangible assets from Finland been transferred to foreign ownership through foreign direct investments in the last ten years?
- What effects can foreign direct investments have on critical intangible assets?
- What kinds of effects can foreign direct investments have on innovation in the national business sector?
Etla is conducting this project in cooperation with Hanken School of Economics and IPR University Center.
