caa a22 4500 397500580 CHVBK 20180308164531.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161202e199502 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1093/spp/22.1.39 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)oxford-10.1093/spp/22.1.39 Pownall Ian Division of International Relations, Politics and Public Administration, School of Social Sciences, Staffordshire University, College Road, Stoke on Trent, ST4 2DE, UK The capture of internalisation as a policy tool: the case of ESPRIT [Elektronische Daten] [Ian Pownall] Internalisation is a transactional approach to the study of the multinational enterprise (MNE) and market behaviour, which has been widely applied to MNE development, decision-making criteria and R&D considerations, but not to joint public-private funding of research. The political implications of internalisation are explored by examining the European Union programme ESPRIT. Through consideration of the market and technological factors associated with a firm's pursuit of internalisation as a viable business strategy and their role within the ESPRIT initiative, the argument is presented that European policy-makers exploited the failings of the European information technology sector to initiate the transfer of competence from the national to European arena. This has arguably led to the political ‘capture' of internalisation as a policy tool and a distortion of corporate strategy. © Beech Tree Publishing 1995 Science and Public Policy Beech Tree Publishing 22/1(1995-02), 39-49 0302-3427 22:1<39 1995 22 spp https://doi.org/10.1093/spp/22.1.39 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1093/spp/22.1.39 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Pownall Ian Division of International Relations, Politics and Public Administration, School of Social Sciences, Staffordshire University, College Road, Stoke on Trent, ST4 2DE, UK NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Science and Public Policy Beech Tree Publishing 22/1(1995-02), 39-49 0302-3427 22:1<39 1995 22 spp Metadata rights reserved CC BY-NC-4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 nationallicence SWISSBIB 342927957 BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-oxford