Periodic Reporting for period 1 - GlobaLISe (Global Value Chains and Local Innovation Systems in Southern Europe:The Coevolution of Technology, Trade and Finance, and the Technological Divide)

The increasing technological and organisational complexity and fragmentation and delocalisation of production through corporate outsourcing and offshoring have fomented the rise of global value chains (GVC) as the linchpin of the world economy. The emerging complex global...