The concluding chapter of the “Small Country Innovation Systems” book develops a comparative analysis that deals with … some extent on issues related to globalization, but devotes most of its attention to innovation policy. The chapter is …

This paper aims to shed light on firm specific drivers that lead firms to internationalise their innovation activities …’s competitive environment and the influence of innovation obstacles in the home country. In particular, the role of the potential … used to observe their impact on the decision to locate innovation activities in various countries and regions (China …

distributed globally. Firms' innovation activities which are carried out abroad comprise either the localization of uniform … paper is to show how internal firm capabilities as well as external forces from the firm’s business and national innovation … environment impact on the firm's decision to carry out different innovation activities abroad. The analysis is based on around …

This paper investigates the drivers and the effects of the internationalisation of innovation activities in SMEs based … on a large data set of German firms covering the period 2002-2007. We look at different stages of the innovation process … resources, home market competition and innovationrelated location advantages for an SME's decision to engage in innovation …

We present a class of dynamic general-equilibrium models of education, innovation and technology transfer to explain …. Innovation and human-capital accumulation appear as in-line engines of scale-invariant endogenous growth. Industries evolve … according to stochastic processes of innovation, imitation and technology adaption in the global economy. …