R&D&I and firms’ internationalization: introduction to the special issue

Over the last two decades, the ofshoring of manufactures has taken a back seat to that of services. Reasons behind the rise of service ofshoring are the liberalization of trade, economic and regulatory reforms, technological advances in communication and digitalization, and the new commercialization of certain goods. Nowadays, an important proportion of exchanges of knowledge-intensive services corresponds to the ofshoring of research,...