Most countries adopt policies in order to attract foreign multinationals, stimulate industrial clustering and to foster innovation. This book links these topical issues. It examines the activities of multinational enterprises, their contribution to cluster development, how they stimulate linkages with domestic firms and contribute to innovation. The efficiency, appropriateness and sufficiency of these policies is discussed, and practical proposals made throughout the volume. New empirical evidence is provided on a variety of industries and country contexts.
ANA TERESA TAVARES is Assistant Professor at the University of Porto (CEMPRE, Faculty of Economics), Portugal. She has been a Visiting Professor in several international universities. Her areas of specialization include multinational subsidiaries' strategies and evolution, the impact of multinationals on host economies, and FDI-related policies. She has published widely on these topics in international journals and books, and has been a consultant to various institutions on regional development and on FDI policy.
AURORA TEIXEIRA is Assistant Professor at the University of Porto (CEMPRE, Faculty of Economics), Portugal. Her areas of interest include innovation policy, human capital and growth-related policies. She has published on these topics in international journals and has a prize winning book on the role of human capital and innovation on Portuguese long-term economic growth.
ULF ANDERSSON Professor of International Business, Department of Business Studies, Uppsala University, Sweden CHRISTIAN BELLAK Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Vienna University of Economics, Austria TERESA MORAIS DA COSTA Project Specialist, Foreign Direct Investment, Intéli, Portugal BERNHARD DACHS Researcher, Department of Technology Policy, ARC Systems Research, Austria JO E DAMIJAN Assistant Professor, University of Ljubljana, and Research Fellow, Institute for Economic Research, Slovenia BERND EBERSBERGER Senior Researcher, Department of Innovation Systems and Policy, Fraunhofer ISI, Germany MANUEL P. FERREIRA Assistant Professor, Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão, Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, Portugal PAULO NERGEIROS FIGUEIREDO Professor of Technological Learning and Industrial Innovation, Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration (EBAPE), Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV), Brazil SOURAFEL GIRMA Reader in Industrial Economics, University of Nottingham Business School, UK AXÈLE GIROUD Senior Lecturer in International Business, Bradford University School of Management, UK ANNE MARIE GLEESON PhD Candidate, Economics, Trinity College, Republic of Ireland YUNDAN GONG Doctoral Student, University of Nottingham Business School, UK HOLGER GÖRG Reader in International Economics, School of Economics, University of Nottingham, UK, and Research Fellow, Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy (GEP) and IZA Bonn, Germany WILLIAM HESTERLY Zeke Dumke Professor of Management, David Eccles School of Business, University of Utah, USA SIMONA IAMMARINO Senior Lecturer, Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU), University of Sussex, UK ANDREJA JAKLIC Assistant Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia MARKUS LEIBRECHT Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Vienna University of Economics, Austria KATRIN MÄNNIK Ph.D. Candidate, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, University of Tartu, Estonia MARINA PAPANASTASSIOU Professor, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark ROBERT PEARCE Reader in International Business, Reading University Business School, UK TORBEN PEDERSEN Professor of International Business, Centre for Strategic Management and Globalization, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark MAGNUS PERSSON Doctoral Student, Department of Business Studies, Uppsala University, Sweden EWEN PETERS Strategy Consultant and Visiting Senior Research Fellow, SIBU, University of Strathclyde, USA MATIJA ROJEC Associate Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia FRANCES RUANE Professor of Economics, Trinity College Dublin, Republic of Ireland FRANCESCA SANNA-RANDACCIO Professor of Economics, Department of Systems and Computer Sciences, University of Rome 'La Sapienza', Italy MARIA SAVONA Post-doctoral Fellow, BETA, Bureau d'Economie Théorique et Appliquée (UMR CNRS 7522) Université Louis Pasteur, France JULIE SUTHERLAND Research Associate, Institute of International Integration Studies, Trinity College, Republic of Ireland NICK VON TUNZELMANN R.M. Phillips Professor of Science & Technology Policy, Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU), University of Sussex, UK FRANCISCO VELOSO Assistant Professor, Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, USA ALEXANDRE VIDEIRA Adviser in the Staff of the Secretary of State for Industry and Innovation, Portugal CELESTE AMORIM VARUM Assistant Professor and Director of the Economics Programme, University of Aveiro, Portugal STEPHEN YOUNG Professor, School of Business and Management, University of Glasgow, UK
