This paper studies the impact of the R&D offshoring of multinational enterprises on the firms in host emerging economies. We develop a two-stage non-cooperative game to analyze the strategic interaction between multinational and host country enterprises engaged in R&D investment. An empirical analysis of 12,309 manufacturing firms in the ICT industry in China shows that R&D offshoring has a pos...

Valuable resources often exist at distant points from a firm’s current locations, so that strategic decisions such as growth have a spatial dimension in which firms seek information and choose between geographically distributed alternatives. Studies show that geographic proximity facilitates the flow of resources, but there is limited understanding of factors that exacerbate or ease the impact ...

We suggest that the proximity of a country to other countries is a factor that affects its choice as an MNE location. We introduce the concept of a country’s proximity to the global distribution of knowledge, markets and resources, and frame this concept as a function of both geographic distance and the worldwide spatial distribution of these factors. We test our location model on a dataset com...

We analyzed the influence of large rivers on the phylogeography of endemic widespread amphibians along Madagascar's east coast, using as models various species and species complexes of Malagasy reed frogs (Heterixalus spp.) that are specialized to either highland or lowland habitats. We assembled a dense sampling across the full species ranges and used mitochondrial (cob) as well as nuclear (Ra...

This paper aims to understand the effect of proximity (i.e. geographical, cognitive and organizational) on the evolution of social ties that shape a geographically bounded network. We collected data over a six-year period on an emerging collaborative network among hospital organizations within an Italian region, and we employed a mixed method approach consisting of longitudinal models for netwo...

Data modelling is a critical stage of database design. Recent research has focused upon object-oriented data modes, which appear more appropriate for certain applications than either the traditional relational model or the entity-relationship approach. The object-oriented approach has proved to be especially fruitful in application areas, such as the design of geographical information systems w...

Smart Systems provide novel enabling functionalities and as such are currently a driving force behind product innovation. Smart Systems are, therefore, crucial for the competitiveness of companies and entire industry sectors. Geo-tagging and smart spaces are two promising directions in modern mobile market. Geo-tagging allows to markup any kind of data by geographical coordinates and time. This...

On the basis of the analysis of the statistical data of bus transport networks of three major cities in China, we propose a novel evolution model of the bus transport network, which applies the strategy of random walk based on direction constrain matrix on two-dimensional grid and the mechanism of combining the geographical-close stations. We investigate some static properties, which include th...

We bring together the topics of geographical clusters and technological trajectories, and shift the focus of the analysis of regional innovation to main technological trends rather than firms. We define a number of inventive clusters in the US space and show that long chains of citations mostly take place between these clusters. This is reminiscent of the idea of global pipelines of knowledge t...