From localized to corporate excellence How do MNCs extract, combine and disseminate sticky knowledge from regional innovation systems?

Poul Houman Andersen and Poul Rind Christensen

No 05-16, DRUID Working Papers from DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy/Aalborg University, Department of Business Studies

Abstract: MNCs and regional innovation systems differ widely in their knowledge generation and dissemination processes. We propose these differences provide systematic challenges for MNC units tapping into locally vested skills, combining their findings with existing knowledge and disseminating this internally. Our aim is to develop a framework for conceptualising the knowledge transfer process between MNCs and regional innovation systems. For that purpose we develop a conceptual model of the knowledge tapping process and a set of propositions

Keywords: MNCs; Knowledge management; Industrial districts (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D83 F23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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