Innovation processes within corporations increasingly tap into international technology sources, yet little is known … types of international technology sourcing activities using survey information on German companies complemented with … German firms to better tap into US R&D, but cooperation with customers and competitors does not appear to aid technology …

"Research on the international transfer of technology in economics and management literature has primarily focused on … business historians have tended to view international technology transfer as a way for economically "backward" countries to … make use of a broad set of national and international institutions facilitating technology transfer. Put differently, the …

sample of firms in Vietnam, Senegal, and the Brazilian state of Ceara. The analysis finds a large variance in technology … sophistication across the business functions of a firm. The within-firm variance in technology sophistication is greater than the … countries. The paper documents a stable cross-firm relationship between technology at the business function and firm levels …