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: https://unu-merit.nl/publications/rmpdf/2002/rm2002-019.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
File-Size: 215586
Handle: RePEc:unm:umamer:2002019