R & D intensity in the affiliates of US owned electronics companies manufacturing in Scotland

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Haug P., Hood N. and Young S. (1983) R & D intensity in the affiliates of US owned electronics companies manufacturing in Scotland, Reg. Studies 17, 383–392. The paper examines the characteristics of R & D activity within a sample of affiliates of US owned electronics companies in Scotland against the setting of other empirical work. A variety of measures of R & D intensity are employed in analysing the sample and attention is drawn to a range of influences which underly the process of technical unit establishment and development. The findings indicate a variety of benefits to the Scottish economy associated with R & D, including high-level employment. R & D units provide a mechanism for facilitating technology transfers, and commercialization of research results was high and based at affiliate level.