The following essay deals with this kind of conflict as a possible consequence of the piggybacking strategy, presenting a theoretical part (chapter 2) followed by an empirical analysis (chapter 3). The latter is based on an opinion poll among German firms that have been asked to evaluate the...

Although neighboring countries and both members of the EU, Greece and Bulgaria have very different social and economic environments in which entrepreneurial activities take place. At the same time, collaborative activities and research on economic and social cohesion and development between the...

In the paper, we present how transnational corporations (TNCs) internationalize their R&D and how they allocate foreign R&D units in high-tech clusters, where competitors of these TNCs, research and academic institutions, and suppliers of these TNCs are also located. We confront two paradigms of...