Chapter four investigates the current status and future directions of R&D internationalisation, identifies the countries and sectors where the share of foreign-owned firms on R&D expenditure is particularly high, looks at R&D expenditure of domestic firms abroad, and at the relations between the United States and the European Union in the internationalisation of R&D. The chapter finishes with a view on new players from emerging economies. Chapter five looks at R&D activities of non-European companies in the European Research Area. Chapter six analyses the structure of R&D internationalisation from a network perspective. The potential drivers of R&D internationalisation are studied in chapter seven whereas Chapter eight looks at the impacts of R&D of foreign-owned firms on domestic R&D performance and other economic indicators. Chapter seven and eight apply econometric methods as well as provide evidence from case studies. Finally, chapter nine summarizes key messages from the study and draws conclusions.

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