SPRU
Overall Strategy
Trade in technology services and international licensing
Deliverable1.1.1_Trends in technology services trade- a cross‐country analysis
Introduction
GlobInn: The changing nature of Internationalization of Innovation in Europe: impact on firms and the implications for innovation policy in the EU
The GlobInn project is funded by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme under the ‘Socio-economic sciences and the humanities' theme.
Partners
- SPRU, University of Sussex (UK) – Co-ordinator
- Brunel Business School (UK)
- Office of National Statistics (UK)
- UNU-MERIT (Netherlands)
- Bocconi University (Italy)
- University of Oslo (Norway)
- Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (India)
Other Collaborators
- Graduate Institute of Technology & Innovation Management, National Chengchi University (Taiwan)
- Center for Global Innovation and Chinese Entrepreneurship, School of Management, Shanghai University (China)
Aims
The overall objective of the project is to study internationalization of innovation amongst European firms and its effect on performance. This is important as Europe’s knowledge capital and its role in the global economy will be increasingly shaped by the ability of EU firms to engage with international sources of knowledge and innovation.
More particularly firms can employ three modes in internationalizing their innovative activities:
- global trading of technology based services and licensing as they look to exploit the global markets for their technologies
- international collaborative agreements and strategic alliances as they seek out international partners for their knowledge generating activities
- international dispersal of their own R&D and technology creating activities as they search for new regions and resources in different parts of the world.
The GlobInn project aims to bring together leading EU scholars involved in studying each of these modes largely in isolation to focus on an integrated analysis. The proposed research has the following overarching aims:
- To analyze the prevalence of the three main mechanisms of internationalization of innovation.
- To understand the underlying firm level processes and strategies and assessing their impact on performance.
- To study the implications of the empirical results in relation to the three main modes of internationalization for both national and EU-level science and technology policies.
