Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Toward a New Approach to National Systems of Innovation
- Part II A Closer Look at National Systems of Innovation
- Part III Opening National Systems of Innovation: Specialisation, Multinational Corporations and Integration
- 10 Export Specialisation, Structural Competitiveness and National Systems of Innovation
- 11 The Home Market Hypothesis Re-examined: The Impact of Domestic User-Producer Interaction on Export Specialisation
- 12 Integration, Innovation and Evolution
- 13 National Systems of Innovation, Foreign Direct Investment and the Operations of Multinational Enterprises
- 14 Public Policy in the Learning Society
- 15 Post Script: Innovation System Research – Where It Came From and Where It Might Go
- Notes
- References
13 - National Systems of Innovation, Foreign Direct Investment and the Operations of Multinational Enterprises
from Part III - Opening National Systems of Innovation: Specialisation, Multinational Corporations and Integration
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Toward a New Approach to National Systems of Innovation
- Part II A Closer Look at National Systems of Innovation
- Part III Opening National Systems of Innovation: Specialisation, Multinational Corporations and Integration
- 10 Export Specialisation, Structural Competitiveness and National Systems of Innovation
- 11 The Home Market Hypothesis Re-examined: The Impact of Domestic User-Producer Interaction on Export Specialisation
- 12 Integration, Innovation and Evolution
- 13 National Systems of Innovation, Foreign Direct Investment and the Operations of Multinational Enterprises
- 14 Public Policy in the Learning Society
- 15 Post Script: Innovation System Research – Where It Came From and Where It Might Go
- Notes
- References
Summary
Introduction
In this chapter, the analysis moves from the area of foreign trade to that of foreign direct investment (FDI). The purpose of the chapter is to discuss the ways in which the operations of multinational enterprises may have influenced the structure and organisation of national systems of innovation first during the previous, now ‘classical’ period of MNE expansion (1955–1975) and how they may be impacting on these systems today within the new phase, often referred to as ‘globalisation’, which began in the course of the 1980's.
The analytical approach adopted is historical. The underlying hypothesis is that as a result of capital accumulation, income growth and technological change, the substantive dimensions and the organisational forms of international production and the other operations of MNEs undergo over time significant and at some moments qualitative changes.
Along with some other factors, the same processes which offer new, enlarged opportunities for MNEs will have impacts on the economies and social institutions largo sensu of nation states. The level of inward and outward foreign direct investment (FDI) as well as the forms investment take and more generally the changes occurring in the operations of MNEs, represent one broad avenue through which such impacts occur.
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- National Systems of InnovationToward a Theory of Innovation and Interactive Learning, pp. 259 - 292Publisher: Anthem PressPrint publication year: 2010
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