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Techno-globalization and Innovation

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Innovation internationalization; Research; Technology

Techno-globalization denotes a global pervasion in generating technological knowledge and exploiting innovations with a technological content. It also claims that globalization has been shaped and advanced with the help of technology. With regard to research and development (here R&D) and innovation, the term in its most modest use is shorthand for the fact that generation, transmission, and diffusion of technologies are increasingly international in scope. A fundamental typology of Archibugi and Michie (1995) differentiates between global technology exploitation, global technological cooperation, and global generation of technology. Techno-globalization subsumes different internationalization aspects: firstly, the international exploitation of domestically generated new technological knowledge on foreign markets, either embedded in innovative products or process technologies (exploited by trade or offshore production) or...

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  1. Centre for Social Innovation (ZSI), Vienna, Austria

    Klaus Schuch

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  1. Department of Information Systems and Technology, Management, European Union Research Center, GWU School of Business, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA

    Elias G. Carayannis

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  1. Faculty for Interdisciplinary Studies, Alpen-Adria-University Klagenfurt, Vienna, Austria

    David F. J. Campbell

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Schuch, K. (2020). Techno-globalization and Innovation. In: Carayannis, E.G. (eds) Encyclopedia of Creativity, Invention, Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15347-6_336

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