Template-type: ReDif-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Narula Rajneesh Author-workplace-name: MERIT Title: The implications of growing cross-border interdependence for systems of innovation Abstract: Taking a multi-disciplinary approach, this paper highlights the importance of takinginto account the role of non-domestic elements in an innovation system, which is traditionallystudied by using the nation-state as the unit of analysis. Learning and knowledge accumulationis often assisted by inward and outward FDI, although this is sometimes overlooked in thestudy of innovation systems. Multi-level, multi-country interactions within a modernknowledge based economy means that firms are not always constrained by the limitations oftheir domestic resources. Nonetheless, there are factors that constrain and pre-determine theextent to which firms and locations can benefit from external knowledge sources, be theydomestic or foreign. Keywords: economics of technology ; Series: Research Memoranda Creation-Date: 2002 Number: 019 File-URL: http://digitalarchive.maastrichtuniversity.nl/fedora/objects/guid:f40487ed-1919-4b33-9404-7b09e7f34010/datastreams/ASSET1/content File-Format: application/pdf File-Size: 215586 Handle: RePEc:unm:umamer:2002019