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PART I STRATEGIC EVOLUTION AND TECHNOLOGY IN MNEs

1 Global Interdependence, MNE Strategy and Technology

2 The Implications for Host-Country and Home-Country Competitiveness of the Internationalisation of R&D and Innovation in Multinationals

3 Motivation and Market Strategies of US Foreign Direct Investments: An Analysis of Host-Country Determinants

Marina Papanastassiou

PART II OVERSEAS R & D AND TECHNOLOGICAL DIVERSITY IN MNEs

4 Motivation and Organisation of Decentralised R&D

Satwinder Singh

5 Overseas R&D Laboratories in MNEs: An Analysis of Their Roles and Motivations

Satwinder Singh

6 Global-Innovation Strategies of MNEs and European Integration: The Role of Regional R&D Facilities

Marina Papanastassiou

7 Firm-Strategies and the Research Intensity of US MNEs' Overseas Operations: An Analysis of Host-Country Determinants

Marina Papanastassiou

PART III INDUSTRY AND COUNTRY CASES

8 The Potential Role of Romania's Technological and Scientific Capacity in Attracting FDI: An Exploratory Analysis of its National System of Innovation

Julia Manea

9 The European R&D Operations of Japanese Multinationals

10 The Globalisation of R&D in Pharmaceuticals, Chemicals and Biotechnology: Some New Evidence

Gurkanwal Singh Pooni

PART IV POLICY CONCLUSIONS

11 Industrial Policy, MNEs and National Technology

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