Abstract
There is good reason to believe that in recent years, just as the idea of national innovation systems has become widely accepted, technological communities have become transnational as never before.’ These are the words of Richard Nelson (1993: 17) in his book, National lnnovation Systems. He also states that since the mid-1980s the technologies known and employed in advanced industrialized countries have basically become the same in all major industrial sectors, which are also operating in basically the same market environment.