According to a new study, multinational companies choose to locate to countries with greater market potential, head-start opportunities, and openness to trade, but are not too worried about taxes or the costs of starting a business. The study also suggests that reforms to obtain the right combination of market and employment regulations could be the key to making certain countries more appealing to investments from R&D multinationals.
Researchers from the JRC and the Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs analysed how regulation and red tape affect the world's top 2500 corporate R&D investors, based on the 2014 EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard.
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