Globalization of R&D in Multinational Corporations--Theory, Effects, and Research on China's Countermeasures

Author: Li Anfang
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Publish Date: 2004-04-01
Features: With the continuous deepening of economic globalization, the trend of global R&D by multinational corporations is becoming increasingly evident. China is currently one of the countries with the most R&D investment by multinational corporations. In the current context, facing the historical tide of the globalization of multinational corporations' R&D and the reality of numerous multinational corporations' R&D institutions vying for a foothold in China, systematically studying the phenomenon of the globalization of multinational corporations' R&D and exploring the impact of global R&D by multinational corporations on the world economy and China's technological innovation is of great theoretical and practical significance. The book takes the globalization of R&D investment by multinational corporations in the context of economic globalization as the basic research object, focuses on the impact of the globalization of multinational corporations' R&D on the world economic system, the host country, and the home country's social and economic development as well as corporate technological innovation, and concludes with China's strategies to address the globalization of multinational corporations' R&D. Following the overall research approach of "Theory - Effects - Countermeasures," the book systematically and comprehensively studies the phenomenon of the globalization of multinational corporations' R&D. The book consists of nine chapters, which respectively examine the fundamental theoretical issues of the motivations, location pattern selection, and global organizational management of the globalization of multinational corporations' R&D; investigate the impact of the globalization of multinational corporations' R&D on the world economy, the host country, and the home country's economic development and technological innovation from micro, meso, and macro levels; and study the policy choices of countries worldwide in response to the globalization of multinational corporations' R&D, as well as China's countermeasures.