ABSTRACT
The determinants of internationalization of production and of R&D activities have been a widely investigated within economic literature. For pioneering the field or putting forward novel perspectives, some studies have gained vintage status (Cantwell, 1989; Dunning, 1993). More recently, however, with the rise of a handful of newly industrialized countries to the fore of economic debate, a new wave of studies have sought to shed further light on the subject in general and on the issues of internationalization of innovative activities in particular (Chiesa, 2000; Calabrese, 2001; von Zedwitz and Gassmann, 2002; UNCTAD, 2005; Cantwell and Mudambi, 2005; Gammeltoft, 2006; Dunning and Lundan, 2008).
