available technological space. Drawing on innovation search theory and the literatures on licensing and absorptive capacity (AC …) we address the issue of the factors that affect how technologically distant from the existing technological portfolio in-licensing … technological portfolio. Furthermore, we compare firms that explore through licensing and firms which do not explore through …

This paper aims to analyze the role of multinational corporations (MNCs) in the development of the software industry in … these countries. The study is centred on software production and IT-related services - software development, chip design and … analysis leads to two final conclusions. First, it shows that the evolution of software activities and the role of MNCs vary …

software activity. We test the hypothesis that the level of skills of participants and their skill variety are important for …