special issue: The new geography of corporate research in Information and Communications Technology (ICT)

John Cantwell and Grazia Santangelo

Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 2002, vol. 12, issue 1, 163-197

Abstract: In the new ICT-based paradigm MNCs have increasingly locationally dispersed competence-creating activities. Using patent data granted in the US to the largest European-owned electronic corporations and all the largest companies in other industries for their ICT research in the European regions, this paper investigates the regional dispersion of such research. We find that co-specialised electronic companies do not tend to develop related R&D in the same regional location, but non-electronic firms undertake related ICT development in a common centre of excellence. Thus, intra-industry competition encourages the geographical separation of co-specialised research, while inter-industry cooperation entails the co-location of related research.

Keywords: Co-specialisation; -; Co-location; -; Innovation; -; International; dispersion (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002-03-20
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