with global, national, regional and local knowledge and innovation dynamics. In the text, we stress the importance to … understand the current changes of the global and their implications for knowledge generation and innovation. Treating knowledge … as a key resource for innovation shifts the focus from the innovation itself to the process of knowledge generation …

Much of the discussion about globalization has been held at a rather superficial macro-economic level. Discussions … about globalization dealing with the meso- and micro-economic level, i.e. the level of regions and companies, have been much … less common. Many of the discussions of globalization at the meso- and micro-economic level have also been biased in the …

During a sequence of decades we can observe a co-evolution of globalization through network formation of multinational … (MNE) firms and concentration in specific places due to agglomerative forces. First, innovation ideas arrive at a faster … speed to firms with past experience of innovation activities and with established export market contacts. Second …

be seen as an attempt to establish an innovation system in computer system development where these kind of different … values were pursued. The innovation system consisted of industry, research institutes, trade unions, and universities, and …

economic activity of each region. We also present estimates of technological and scientific innovation. We identify 40 mega … global innovation. …

The general motivation for this paper is the current interest in globalization as a phenomenon that strongly affects … particular those that foster the evolution of entrepreneurs in local-global processes. We present four eras of globalization, in … recent decades and which have been described as different aspects of globalization are not new at all. In conclusion, we …

investments, externalities and key actors in national innovation systems and productivity. This study explores whether foreign … embeddedness in scientific, vertical and horizontal innovation systems. However, the advantage of higher R&D intensity and possible … knowledge technological knowledge spillover does not manifest itself in superior innovation output or productivity performance …