Multinational companies are crucial actors in a global knowledge-based economy, combining the advantages of global and locally coordinated production and innovation strategies with specific regional and national factors. This book questions how MNCs can best exploit institutionally embedded...

Using a balanced panel of firm-level data on the manufacturing industry in France, Italy and Spain over the 1993-1997 period, this paper examines the impact of foreign presence on the productivity of domestic enterprises. We innovate on existing literature by using firm-level data comparable...

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...