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Hall, Bronwyn H. - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2011

This paper surveys what we know about the internationalization of business R&D spending. I examine three specific questions about the global changes in R&D activity: First, what is the evidence that R&D is becoming more internationalized (more footloose)? Second, what are the factors that...

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EU enlargement and consequences for FDI assisted industrial development

Narula, Rajneesh; Bellak, Christian - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2008

Many of the new member states as well as candidate and accession countries of the EU are confident that membership will result in substantially increased inward foreign direct investment (FDI) in manufacturing. This paper discusses the policy issues and challenges that cohesion and accession...

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Multinationals are Multicultural Units: Some Indications from a Cross-Cultural Study

Kwanjai, Nantawan Noi; Hertog, J. Friso den - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2008

This paper makes a case for the value of looking at culture and multinationals from a management and organizational … on multinational corporations. We attempt to illustrate that multinationals are fundamentally multicultural units in more … illuminate an understanding of their covert meanings vis-à-vis culture and learning in multinationals. Last, we reinstate how our …

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New insights on the role of location advantages in international innovation

Narula, Rajneesh; Santangelo, Grazia D. - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2011

This paper takes a closer look at the role of location advantages in the spatial distribution of MNE R&D activity. In doing so, we have returned to first principles by revisiting our understanding of L and O advantages and their interaction. We revisit the meaning of L advantages, and offer a...

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Global Players from Brazil: drivers and challenges in the internationalization process of Brazilian firms

Carvalho, Flavia; Costa, Ionara; Duysters, Geert - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2010

This chapter discusses general patterns of internationalization of Brazilian firms. It highlights the main determinants for internationalization, the main destinations, as well as the modes of entry that Brazilian firms employ overseas. The paper also discusses some aspects related to the...

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Nanotechnology Publications and Patents: A Review of Social Science Studies and Search Strategies

Huang, Can; Notten, Ad; Rasters, Nico - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2008

This paper provides a comprehensive review of more than 120 social science studies in nanoscience and technology, all of which analyze publication and patent data. We conduct a comparative analysis of bibliometric search strategies that these studies use to harvest publication and patent data...

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Breaking the Fence: Patent Rights and Biomedical Innovation in 'Technology Followers'

Gehl Sampath, Padmashree - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2006

-commons" has been predicted due to a proliferation of patents on upstream technologies, evidence to test these concerns is only now …

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Knowledge Flows, Patent Citations and the Impact of Science on Technology

Verspagen, Bart; Nomaler, Onder - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2007

patents to the scientific literature has been suggested as an indicator of this process of transfer of knowledge from science …

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Radical versus Non-Radical Inventions

Schoenmakers, Wilfred; Duysters, Geert; Vanhaverbeke, Wim - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2008

is very important. For our research we made use of the EPO (European Patent Office) database on patents. We used the …

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State-led technological development: A case of China's nanotechnology development

Huang, Can; Wu, Yilin - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2011

We analyze the nanotechnology patent applications filed in China from 1998 to 2008 and find that the extraordinary nanotechnology development in China has been primarily promoted by the public sector but not driven by industry and market force. This finding implies that developing countries such...

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