ABSTRACT
Introduction Over recent decades, processes of scientific discovery and technological innovation create the impression of an intensifying globalisation. Both are generated at many different locations, and participation in them, as well as the demand for the products that eventually result from them, is geographically dispersed. However, what has been experienced is a globalisation of markets for the commercialisable findings of scientific research and the products of technological innovation, rather than a globalisation of processes of innovation.
