TY - BOOK AU - Cantwell,John TI - Technological innovation and multinational corporations SN - 9780631138471 U1 - 338.88 CAN PY - 1989/// CY - Oxford [England], Cambridge, Mass., USA PB - B. Blackwell KW - Technological innovations KW - Competition, International KW - International business enterprises N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [220]-232) and index; Historical trends in international patterns of technological innovation; a dynamic model of the post-war growth of international economic activity in Europe and the USA; the evolution of technological competition between US and European firms; technological advantage as a determinant of the international economic activity of firms; technological competition and intra-industry production in the industrialised world; a classical model of the impact of international trade and production on national industrial growth; towards and evolutionary theory of international production N2 - Analyzing technological competition between US, European and Japanese firms since the 1950s, the author presents a wide ranging but detailed consideration of evidence on the changing pattern of international trade and production in the major industrialized countries ER -