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Technological Capabilities and the Regional Embeddedness of Multinational Enterprises. A Case Study of Germany and the UK

In: Innovation and Institutional Embeddedness of Multinational Companies

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  • Simona Iammarino
  • Jan-Philipp Kramer
  • Elisabetta Marinelli
  • Javier Revilla Diez

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Multinational companies are crucial actors in a global knowledge-based economy, combining the advantages of global and locally coordinated production and innovation strategies with specific regional and national factors. This book questions how MNCs can best exploit institutionally embedded knowledge, explores the utilization of external institutionally embedded knowledge in corporate innovation processes, and addresses the challenges of embeddedness.

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  • Simona Iammarino & Jan-Philipp Kramer & Elisabetta Marinelli & Javier Revilla Diez, 2012. "Technological Capabilities and the Regional Embeddedness of Multinational Enterprises. A Case Study of Germany and the UK," Chapters, in: Martin Heidenreich (ed.), Innovation and Institutional Embeddedness of Multinational Companies, chapter 7, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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