economic activity, multinationality and innovation. The paper identifies the consensus view which is emerging in the literature … they promote innovation. The paper tests whether this relationship is evident in Great Britain using data derived from the … UKís Annual Foreign Direct Investment survey and the UKís Community Innovation Survey 2007. It addresses a surprising gap …

This paper examines innovation among very small firms and provides new insights into both internal and external … for the period 2000–2006, the following facts emerge: (i) in contrast to larger firms, innovation in micro firms with 1 … innovation among micro firms compared to other firms, (iii) affiliation to a domestically owned multinational enterprise group …

innovation activities captured by patent applications, firm characteristics, international trade and the regional milieu. …

The issue of through what processes R&D collaboration with universities affects a firms’ innovation performance remains … under-researched. In particular, university relationships have not been fully integrated in the open innovation framework …. This study explores the relationship between firms’ collaboration with universities and their capabilities for innovation …

characteristics of the innovation systems at national and regional levels. The paper studies two phenomena. First, what novelties are … brought into the host region (country) when FDI inflows occur? Second, what are the consequences for the innovation intensity … are based on CIS data (Community Innovation Survey III). The paper contributes to earlier studies in two important ways …

between university collaboration and the average service firm’s innovation output. Second, in the pursuit of credible … innovative in the literature of innovation studies. In analysis of the interviews, we find very weak support for the first idea …. Innovation efficiency gains in the form of reduced cost and risk for innovation projects, which is a third idea suggested by the …