We analyze in this paper determinants of voluntary knowledge transfer from foreign investors to their local suppliers in 19 Sub- Saharan African countries using data from the 2010 Africa Investor Survey by UNIDO. We argue that not all backward linkages entail the same potential for spillovers...

This paper studies the context of market orientation and the contribution of customer knowledge, networking, and cultural knowledge to market orientation particularly to the internationalization of firms in developing economies. A multiple case approach is adopted with four Swedish firms...

Scientific collaboration, in most cases, is seen a joint action on a global scale that involves researchers from not just one region or one country but instead forming an international network of researchers. This type of epistemic communities build up especially in the case of analytical modes...