The globalisation of R&D activities has continued to grow as companies are increasingly trying to capture knowledge and … market opportunities internationally. The rapid evolution of national economies and the ways to conduct knowledge …

innovation activities during periods of recession. We empirically analyse what general patterns can be distinguished in this …: some companies have recently reduced their innovation activities significantly, while others maintained them and a third … deceleration of R&D and innovation activities induced by the crisis, but the trend figures remain positive. Driven by the companies …

Empresas, the Spanish innovation survey conducted annually by the Spanish National Statistics Institute (INE). The main …