international production and innovation networks, and enterprises which used information and communication technologies (ICT) more …

two activities: knowledge search and knowledge deployment. We predict theoretically that domestic firms have advantages … when they search for knowledge due to their embeddedness in the host country. However, this increased embeddedness reduces … the degree of novelty of their knowledge pool. Foreign MNC subsidiaries therefore have advantages in knowledge deployment …

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 …