Innovation and location in the multinational firm

International Journal of Technology Management

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 116-132

  Cantwell, John ^a   Zhang, Yanli ^b  

^a RUTGERS BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clusters; Knowledge spillovers; Locational hierarchies; MNC; Multinational corporations; Science technology linkages

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT;

CLUSTERS; KNOWLEDGE SPILLOVERS; LOCATIONAL HIERARCHIES; MULTI-NATIONAL CORPORATIONS; SCIENCE TECHNOLOGIES;

LOCATION;

EID: 79952320704     PISSN: 02675730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJTM.2011.038832     Document Type: Article

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