This book provides a comprehensive picture of the location of technological innovation of multinational corporations in the European Union. The increasingly global research strategies of the world's largest firms are analyzed at a detailed regional level across the major EU countries. This...

In a rapidly globalizing economy, and particularly in the face of a process of economic integration such as that occurring in the EU, regions forge an increasing number of linkages with other locations within and across national boundaries through the local technological development efforts of...

This paper investigates how the location behaviour of Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) is shaped by the economic institutions of the host countries. The analysis covers a wide set of geographically proximate economies with different degrees of integration with the ‘Old' 15 European Union (EU)...