The 389 companies listed in London and registered offshore had a combined market capitalisation of £224.5bn at the end of April.
That is, R&D offshoring has a positive effect on the R&D efforts of host country firms in emerging economies.
Why didn't offshoring have a bigger effect?
According to Howard Rosen, Esq., a partner at Donlevy Rosen & Rosen, experts in offshore asset protection, offshore planning has a completely unjustified association with criminality and evasion.
Urbanisation is a cause of falling water vole numbers, while bottom trawling offshore has harmed the ocean quahog, a bivalve which can live for 500 years.
"We think Alaska offshore has the potential to be a world-class resource," said Pete Slaiby, vice president of Shell Alaska, at a news conference in Anchorage.
One small patch 20 miles offshore has been divvied up by a few lobstermen from Point Judith, but that's an exceptional case.
The fishermen who tried to reach the trapped fish (nets a mile offshore had created a semi-wild farm environment), could only watch as they faced a solid block of glowing red jellyfish to the horizon.
Offshore production has a high level of complexity inherent to its development and exploration.
