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Author-Name: Antonio García Sánchez
Author-Email: acichez@us.es
Author-Workplace-Name: Instituto Complutense de Estudios Internacionales (ICEI). Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
Author-Name: José Molero Zayas
Author-Email: 	jomolero@ucm.es
Author-Workplace-Name: Instituto Complutense de Estudios Internacionales (ICEI). Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
Author-Name: Ruth Rama
Author-Workplace-Name: Instituto Complutense de Estudios Internacionales (ICEI). Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
Title: Patterns of local R&D cooperation of foreign subsidiaries in an intermediate country: innovative and structural factors
Abstract: We attempt to contribute to a better understanding of cooperative innovation patterns of foreign subsidiaries (FS) in 
	Spain as a representative intermediate country, going deeply into three main aspects: firstly, a sectoral taxonomy which 
	combines international technological dynamism and revealed technological advantage as a way to understand such patterns. 
	Secondly we focus our attention on innovative intensive subsidiaries, assuming they are the most important ones for hosting 
	countries. Thirdly, we combine innovation and structural-competitive variables to explain local cooperation. We found more 
	intense cooperation of FS with local agents in dynamic specialization sectors, as well as the fact that this is mostly 
	carried out in a complementary mode with inner knowledge capabilities of the companies. Cooperative activities are 
	influenced by economicstructural factors of the Spanish economy, particularly in highly innovative companies. Cooperative 
	strategies of domestic firms might also have an influence on those of foreign subsidiaries.
Creation-Date: 2016 
Length: 39 pages
Number:
 1603
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