In this paper we suggest a description of National Innovation Systems (NIS) from a structuralist point of view. Two NISs are investigated (French and Italian) with patent data broken down into two dimensions: the industrial sectors which produce them and the technological fields in which the...

In this paper, we deal with the process of internationalisation of R&D activities. In particular, we focus our study on the factors explaining the localisation of multinational corporations’ (MNC) foreign direct investment in R&D. Firstly we set out evidence regarding the recent trends of the...