0000000000313197
AUTHOR
Geoff Mason
External knowledge sourcing in different national settings: a comparison of electronics establishments in Britain and France
04001; International audience; In a detailed comparison of matched samples of electronics establishments in Britain and France, this paper finds that the two samples of establishments were operating in distinctively different national labour markets for engineers and scientists, reflecting structural differences in national higher education systems and a far higher level of individual mobility between enterprises in Britain than is found in France. These differences were found to have very little effect on quantitative measures of establishments' external research interactions which tended to reflect other national-institutional differences such as continued government support for public la…
Cross-national variation in knowledge search and exchange activities: optoelectronics suppliers in Britain and France
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