For some decades, European Union innovation policies have been promoting technological cooperation and encouraging the share of knowledge between member States. From this perspective, large attention has been specifically directed to interregional collaborations as a potential solution to reduce...

Firms from emerging countries such as Brazil, India, and China (BIC) are going global, and Europe is attracting around one-third of their direct outward investments. Growing internationalization constitutes an opportunity for technological catch up. In this paper we analyze BIC firms'...

This chapter asks whether the European Union Member States are ready for inward Foreign Direct Investment from the Emerging Markets. It concludes that European Union Member States have relatively open Foreign Direct Investment regimes in the international context, and yet instances of...