Sticky places in slippery space – the location of innovation by MNCs in the European regions

John Cantwell, Simona Iammarino and Camilla Noonan

Chapter 8 in Inward Investment Technological Change and Growth, 2001, pp 210-239 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The changing nature of international production and business means that the competitive advantage of firms lies increasingly in their ability to create a coherent set of new capabilities and source technological knowledge internationally (Cantwell, 1989; Teece et al., 1994; Cantwell and Piscitello, 1999a). Although the majority of multinational corporations (MNCs) continue to locate a large proportion of their R&D in their home country, it is widely acknowledged that many MNCs are now making increasing use of international networks for technology development to augment technologies generated in their home base (Cantwell, 1995; Fors, 1998; Dunning and Lundan, 1998; Kuemmerle, 1999; Cantwell and Piscitello, 2000). The pertinent issue for host economies attempting to entice such high value added activity, is to understand what renders a location attractive or ‘sticky in such slippery space’ (Markusen, 1996).

Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Knowledge Spillover; Innovative Activity; Technological Activity; Host Economy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230598447_8

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