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Managing Innovation in Multinational Firmsquarters have the power and the responsibility to initiate the process of R&D internationalization, to guide its evolution and to orchestrate the MNC’s geographically distributed R&D activities. This chapter reviews and discusses the literature on MNC headquarters’ decisions regarding the geographic

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Perspectives on Host Locationseneral perspective on critical constructs such as place and space, distance and border effects and national and sub-national geographical scales. Moreover, it provides with a basic systematization of the different spatial configurations that, along the years, have been proposed for the study of inno

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Integrating Perspectivesin MNCs. Such analytical framework suggests accounting not only for the micro-level of MNC headquarters and the macro-level of home/host countries, but also for the more fine-grained micro-level of MNC subsidiaries and the meso-level of sub-national host locations, such as clusters. Tis approach has

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Concluding Remarks and New Research Directionscal proximity, particularly for innovation-related matters, it explains why R&D internationalization and, in turn, the geography of international innovation, is a relevant research topic despite the seemingly limited magnitude of this phenomenon. It emphasizes the importance of conceptualizing subsi

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Integrating Perspectives the potential to enrich the investigation into geographically dispersed R&D activities through an accurate account of actors and conditions that are more directly involved into decentralized processes of innovation. The chapter concludes by applying the proposed framework to the topic of FDI knowledge spillovers to host locations.