Nepelski, Daniel; De Prato, Giuditta - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
We apply network analysis to study the ICT R&D locations at the city level. We use a dataset on the location and R …&D activity of over 3000 R&D centres belonging to 175 MNEs, located in over 1300 cities around the world. The results show that … most of the cities have few R&D connections and are grouped into "cliques", linked through network hubs. Hence, not only is …