Using firm-level survey data from Barcelona, Stockholm, and Vienna in Europe, and Singapore, Penang (Malaysia), and Bangkok in Southeast Asia, we enquire into the different R<?th=2.15mm>&<?th>D and innovation behaviour of multinational and local companies in these metropolitan regions. Scrutinizing a set of...</?th></?th=2.15mm>

Innovation systems in late industrializing countries are said to be ill-developed and fragmented, lacking crucial key resources and access to technology and knowledge. At the same time these national innovation systems (NISs) host subsidiaries of transnational corporations, which could...

The four studies in this technical paper series deal with complementary themes and propose solutions to the same problems that all of them perceive in the Mexican electricity sector - yet each paper looks at the problem from a different angle, and proposes different actions that must be taken in...

This article characterizes and analyses evaluation practice in national innovation policy across Europe. It is the first study that examines and interprets the characteristics, quality, usefulness, and consequences of evaluations in a systematic way. The analysis is based on the comprehensive...