Elite European Universities and the R&D Subsidiaries of Multinational Enterprises

This chapter analyzes why large multinational firms are willing to invest resources in long-term collaboration with leading universities. This chapter is based on interviews with the multinationals at universities in Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. The issue of how and why multinational corporations are willing to invest in longer-term collaboration with universities relates back to the core of the ‘positive’ interpretation of the knowledge society for Europe – namely how to remain attract node for R&D. This chapter thus moves to the perspective of the firm, in their interactions with university-based researchers active in top universities in different fields.

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP Ekonomi och näringsliv Företagsekonomi hsv//swe
SOCIAL SCIENCES Economics and Business Business Administration hsv//eng
ETH Zurich
MNEs
Cambridge University
Karolinska Institute
elite universities
R&D subsidiaries
R&D subsidiaries; MNEs; ETH Zurich; Karolinska Institute; Cambridge University; elite universities

McKelvey, Tomas,1966Göteborgs universitet,University of Gothenburg(Swepub:cth)mckelvey (author)
Sandström, Christian,1982 (author)
McKelvey, Maureen,1965Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutet för innovation och entreprenörskap,Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship(Swepub:gu)xmckma (author)
Göteborgs universitetInstitutet för innovation och entreprenörskap (creator_code:org_t)

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By the university: Chalmers University of Technology; University of Gothenburg

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