Role of home and host country innovation systems in r&d internationalisation: A patent citation analysis

Economics of Innovation and New Technology

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 417-433

  Criscuolo, Paola ^a,b   Narula, Rajneesh ^c   Verspagen, Bart ^d  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^d EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Asset augmentation; Innovation systems; Internationalisation; Knowledge flows; Multinational enterprises; Patent citation analysis; R d; Spillovers

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645576989     PISSN: 10438599     EISSN: 14768364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1043859042000315285     Document Type: Article

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