Research and development is no longer a headquarters function. More and more companies internationalize their ¤R& D activities. The pros and cons of this approach are discussed in this book. The organizational alternatives for inter¤national R&D as well as the consequences that they have for...

Literature suggests that location should matter for R&D activities. However, attempts to empirically detect differences in innovation activity between regions have so far been rather unsuccessful. Using a unique data set which contains comparable information about manufacturing enterprises in...