The innovative activity of foreign subsidiaries in the Spanish Innovation System: An evaluation of their impact from a sectoral taxonomy approach

The aim of this paper is to contribute to a better understanding of the impact multinational enterprises (MNEs) innovative strategies have on the countries they localised their activities, particularly the so-called “intermediate countries”. By using micro-data of the 2003 Spanish Innovation Survey we investigate the situation in the manufacturing sector. A new perspective of that impact arises from the elaboration of a sectoral taxonomy of...