Template-type: ReDif-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Narula Rajneesh Author-Name: Zanfei Antonello Author-workplace-name: MERIT Title: The international dimension of innovation Abstract: This paper undertakes a brief evaluation of the trends in the internationalization of innovative activities. We provide a taxonomy of R&D internationalization strategies, and discuss the main relevant theoretical and empirical issues, before discussing the centripetal and centrifugal forces underlying the nature and evolution of cross border innovation. We address the issue of international technology partnering as a key strategy that is complementary to the internationalisation of innovative activities through internal means, before raising important policy dimensions that derive from these debates. Keywords: international economics and trade ; Series: Research Memoranda Creation-Date: 2003 Number: 010 File-URL: http://digitalarchive.maastrichtuniversity.nl/fedora/objects/guid:5da12ae3-0082-4a6c-9864-87b2e8e4530f/datastreams/ASSET1/content File-Format: application/pdf File-Size: 304996 Handle: RePEc:unm:umamer:2003010