My research focuses on innovation processes and firm strategies at the local and global levels. At the local level, I am interested in how innovation occurs in industrial clusters, particularly how local entrepreneurs interact with each other. At the global level, I am tackling a geographical dilemma of multinational enterprises: they need to act both as a local firm to access local knowledge pools and as a global organization to channel transnational knowledge flows. I approach this geographical puzzle by investigating how multinational firms strategically leverage knowledge over space, especially at the sub-national level, such as industrial clusters. In general, my research cuts across the fields of innovation studies, entrepreneurship, international business, strategy, and economic geography.