The Tangible Contribution of R&D Spending Foreign-Owned Plants to a Host Region: a Plant Level Study of the Irish Manufacturing Sector (1980-1996)



Figure 2 (B): A Survival function of Foreign-owned Plants in Ireland
1986-1996 by Scale of R&D Activity.

Source: Calculated using data from Forfas.

Appendix A

Table A1: Lifetable Analysis of Foreign-owned plants by Sector 1980-

1996

Sector (OECD)

Probability of Staying:

High-

Tech_____

Medium-

High-tech

Medium-

Low-tech

Low-Tech

All
Plants

5 years

74.52%

73.59%

71.38%

65.32%

70.36%

10 years

63.47%

59.95%

55.42%

48.07%

55.18%

17 years (1980-

1996)_______

55.97%

52.94%

46.96%

38.89%

47.02%

Source: Calculated using data from Forfas.

Table Note A1:Wilcoxon-Gehan statistics show that the difference in
probabilities of survival between plants in different sectors are
statistically significant at the 1% level.

Table A2: Lifetable Analysis of Foreign-owned plants by R&D
Activity 1986-1996

Scale of R&D spend

Probability of Staying:

non-R&D

Spenders

Total R&D

Spenders_____

Small R&D

_____Spenders

Large R&D
Spenders

5 years

76.79%

93.55%

88.89%

96.85%

10 years_______________

64.35%

88.02%

84.44%

90.55%

Source: Calculated using data from Forfas.

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