This book provides a comprehensive picture of the location of technological innovation of multinational corporations in … the European Union. The increasingly global research strategies of the world's largest firms are analyzed at a detailed …

findings on the distribution of European research and patenting activity since the 1980s at the regional level. Besides a …, European regional income and growth disparities are addressed by placing emphasis on the spatial distribution of research …

the performance of higher education and scientific research. However, it has been debated whether university clusters can … study determines the impact of university clusters on scientific research performance. Panel data of 2000 colleges and … negative impact on the scientific research performance due to technological dis-proximity and rising commuting costs. And the …