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“We really don’t want to move, but...”: identity and strategy in the internationalisation of industrial R&D

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In Norway, as in many other high-cost OECD countries in a geographical and cultural periphery, policy-makers seem to have given up attempts at attracting large numbers of foreign R&D investments. Instead, a major focus of innovation policies is to help companies internationalise yet with an aim to maintain or even increase their level of R&D and other innovation activities nationally. Based on case studies of eight Norwegian companies and their motives for and experiences with internationalisation of R&D, this article questions this policy. From the perspective of the companies, many factors explain how, why and where they carry out their R&D activities.

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  1. Innovation Studies, NIFU STEP—Studies in Innovation, Research and Education, Wergelandsveien 7, Oslo, 0167, Norway

    Magnus Gulbrandsen & Helge Godoe

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Gulbrandsen, M., Godoe, H. “We really don’t want to move, but...”: identity and strategy in the internationalisation of industrial R&D. J Technol Transfer 33, 379–392 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10961-007-9049-8

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