Countries adopt policies that attract foreign multinationals, stimulate industrial clustering and foster innovation. This book links these topical issues, examining activities of multinational enterprises alongside the efficiency, appropriateness and sufficiency of such policies. With new empirical evidence, it makes practical proposals throughout.

This study contributes to the addressing
of the Patent-R&D relationship from a new perspective,
analyzing a crucial yet ignored question: Can more patents
have a negative effect on R&D investment? Offering an
extensive synthesizes of existing theoretical and empirical
literature, we focus on the arguments that might sustain a
negative impact of patents over R&D. The Patent system
seems to have created an incentive to massive patenting
with no perceivable significant(maybe even negative as...