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Global Location Patterns of R&D Investments
This paper concerns offshore R&D investments, focusing mainly on large multinational companies within the industrialized world. The authors examine the following questions: What do we know about offshore R&D activities regarding trends, scope and destinations, driving forces and constraints? and; What do we know about consequences for the R&D investing company, as well as for national systems of innovation, regional R&D
externalities, agglomeration and urban economies of home and host countries as well?
Geography
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http://www.infra.kth.se/cesis/documents/WP60.pdf