“…One of these, called absorptive capacity, concerns the way firms absorb outside knowledge and adopt it in their processes, transforming their structure, and thus gaining innovative products as inputs, with results that increase their global competitiveness (Armstrong & Lengnick-Hall, 2013;Brettel, Greve, & Flatten, 2011;Cohen & Levinthal, 1990;Najafi-Tavani, Sharifi, & S. Ismail, 2014;Ritala & Hurmelinna-Laukkanen, 2013;Zahra & George, 2002). Other studies relate the importance of the role of R&D investment to the diffusion of innovations (Bae, 2016;Bertrand & Mol, 2013;Kim, 2015), associating this with improved performance. A third group of studies (Blomstrom, 1986;Blomstrom & Kokko, 1998;Liu, 2008;Suyanto, Bloch, & Salim, 2012;Suyanto & Salim, 2013) relates the role of foreign multinationals and local subsidiaries in the generation of knowledge transfers to the country which receives these new technologies, which thus increases the country's productivity and provides it with greater competitiveness in relation to other nations.…”