Cantwell, John; Santangelo, Grazia D. - In: Journal of Evolutionary Economics 10 (2000) 1, pp. 131-157
to innovate) by knowledge flows between firms. Our empirical evidence, based on US patent data, shows that multinational … knowledge. However, within the science-based industries firms may generate abroad some technologies which are heavily dependent … on tacit knowledge, but normally in fields that lie outside their own core technological competencies. We find some …