Knowledge Transfer between Internationalised SMEs

This study focuses on SMEs that belong to the sectors of mechanics and electronics, and operate in dynamic international business markets. This work aims to investigate how international marketing strategies are based and maybe in some cases are actually heavily dependent on the capacity to form and enhance skills in design, engineering and production activities, and on the propensity to invest more resources in R&D activities as well as in activities that are more strictly speaking production based (manufacturing). This study has the objective of examining the influence of the structure and composition of a technological SME's international alliance portfolio to gain a better understanding of the way in which the transfer of knowledge takes place between elements of the same company, that has localized production and research activities in different foreign markets. coproduct The study is based on the empirical analysis of the most representative business cases among those analysed in the mechanical and electronic areas of the Marche Region. It creates new challenges for both theoretical treatments of the MNE, for practitioners and for policy makers.