ABSTRACT
From the discussion carried out above, it becomes quite clear that foreign investment in innovation has as much a regional scope as it has a national one. In particular, recent trends in the European Union support the conjecture that a comparative analysis at the sub-national scale is the most appropriate way to identify the effects of the globalisation of technology. Therefore, we have tried to devise a more suitable and detailed geographical unit of analysis, in order to throw some new light on the circumstances that give rise to geographical agglomeration and increasing interactions between MNCs’ research location and regional systems of innovation.
