Cantwell J. and Piscitello L. (2005) Recent location of foreign-owned research and development activities by large multinational corporations in the European regions: the role of spillovers and externalities, Regional Studies39, 1-16. This paper examines the role of spillovers and externalities...

This paper examines the relative attractiveness of the Italian, German and UK regions for the siting of foreign-owned corporate technological development, controlling for the geographical distribution of the equivalent innovative efforts of established indigenous firms in each country. The data...

This paper examines how the characteristics of local contexts affect the location of foreign-owned R&D activities, in terms of positive (i.e. attraction) and/or negative (i.e. deterrence) spillovers. It distinguishes between activities that are Competence-Creating (CC) (that create new lines of...

Recent studies have suggested that firm-specific technological competence may be diversified and internationalized. We show that increases in competence increased corporate technological diversification until the early 1970s, and then again more recently. However, a new interrelationship has now...

After a prolonged postwar period of remarkable foreign ownership penetration, in the last two decades Italy lost its high position as a country of destination of worldwide inward FDI. At the beginning of the new millennium, Italy ranks about 13 th regarding the stock, and 21 st regarding the...

The present paper deals with the performance implications of service activities offshoring, meant as the delocalization of business services in foreign countries. Data have come from the Offshoring Research Network (ORN) and have been analysed using an Exploratory Factor Analysis to aggregate...

Applied Evolutionary Economics and Economic Geography aims to further advance empirical methodologies in evolutionary economics, with a special emphasis on geography and firm location. It does so by bringing together a select group of leading scholars including economists, geographers and...

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