This paper is divided into two parts. The first part is an examination of the OECD classification of industries into high, medium and low technology industries, to look at the basis for this classification and to use that as a benchmark with which to classify the Community Innovation Survey...

The aims of the paper are: (a) to analyse the possible motives behind international location strategies of companies with particular emphasis on why companies may locate in many foreign countries; (b) to develop two complementary methods of assessing the degree of internationalisation and...