National and International Developments in Technology - Trends, Patterns and Implications for Policy

Declining R&D intensities at the national level coincide with growing international technological links. In this context a number of questions arise: Do companies research in the same field of technology abroad as they do at home? Are the fields of technology in which R&D is concentrated within a country those in which it has a comparative advantage? What drives the process of the internationalisation of technology? • What are the implications for host countries and home countries? What are the implications for policy on a national and an international level?

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