Literature suggests that location should matter for R&D activities. However, attempts to empirically detect differences in innovation activity between regions have so far been rather unsuccessful. Using a unique data set which contains comparable information about manufacturing enterprises in...

The internationalisation of corporate R&D opens up the chances to participate in international knowledge sharing. This increasingly motivates firms to accelerate the pace and extent of their international R&D activities in order to enhance innovativeness and consequently competitiveness and...

Der Autor zeigt Strukturveränderungen internationaler Forschungs- und Entwicklungsaktivitäten (F&E) innerhalb der globalen Informations- und Kommunikationstechnischen Industrie (IKT) auf und untersucht die Schwerpunktverlagerung technologischer Kompetenzen in die BRIC-Staaten. Er analysiert...