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Multinationals and National Systems of Innovation: Strategy and Policy Issues

In: Multinationals, Clusters and Innovation

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  • Robert Pearce
  • Marina Papanastassiou

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One of the most significant journeys in our understanding of international business has been that from an essentially centralized view of innovation in MNEs toward one that encompasses an increasing range of decentralized inputs and strategic postures. This change in perspective can then be seen as decisively embodied within comparable changes in the way in which the effects of international business on individual host countries have been analysed. Here we can see a refocusing from an FDI-based interpretation of flows of separate firm attributes (increasingly technology and other intangible assets rather than finance capital per se) toward a more MNE-strategy oriented evaluation of how firms position their operations in a specific location within wider globalized programs (Pearce, 2001, forthcoming). The aim of this chapter then is to generate a methodology for the assessment of the ways in which MNEs’ globalized strategies for innovation involve themselves with the attempts of national economies to generate and operationalize innovation competences as a source of growth and international competitiveness.

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  • Robert Pearce & Marina Papanastassiou, 2006. "Multinationals and National Systems of Innovation: Strategy and Policy Issues," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Ana Teresa Tavares & Aurora Teixeira (ed.), Multinationals, Clusters and Innovation, chapter 17, pages 289-307, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-62494-8_17
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230624948_17
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    1. Filippaios, Fragkiskos & Papanastassiou, Marina & Pearce, Robert & Rama, Ruth, 2009. "New forms of organisation and R&D internationalisation among the world's 100 largest food and beverages multinationals," Research Policy, Elsevier, vol. 38(6), pages 1032-1043, July.
    2. Costa, Ionara & Filippov, Sergey, 2007. "A New Nexus Between Foreign Direct Investment, Industrial and Innovation Policies," MERIT Working Papers 2007-030, United Nations University - Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT).
    3. Marina Papanastassiou, 2009. "Foreign Direct Investment and Small Countries," Management International Review, Springer, vol. 49(1), pages 5-10, February.
    4. Andrzej Cieślik & Jan Jakub Michałek & Krzysztof Szczygielski & Jacek Lewkowicz & Jerzy Mycielski, 2021. "Foreign Ownership and Within-MNEs GVC Participation as Determinants of Innovation Activities: A CIS-Based Firm-Level Analysis," Central European Journal of Economic Modelling and Econometrics, Central European Journal of Economic Modelling and Econometrics, vol. 13(2), pages 189-211, June.
    5. Robert Pearce, 2009. "Multinationals’ Strategies and the Economic Development of Small Economies: A Tale of Two Transitions," Management International Review, Springer, vol. 49(1), pages 81-94, February.
    6. Shasha Zhao & Hui Tan & Marina Papanastassiou & Anne-Wil Harzing, 2020. "The internationalization of innovation towards the South: A historical case study of a global pharmaceutical corporation in China (1993–2017)," Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Springer, vol. 37(2), pages 553-585, June.

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