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Globalisation of innovation in knowledge intensive industries : Lessons from the new China

In English

Författare

Summary, in English

The global location of R & D labs by MNCs is a rather new phenomenon; especially when it comes to establishing R & D labs in developing countries. The existing and rather limited literature on globalisation of innovation provides four possible explanations of why multinationals locate R & D labs in developing countries: reduce research costs, access large markets, tap into a large pool of qualified human resources or benefit from knowledge spillovers available in the local/regional system of innovation. The empirical research presented in this paper reveals that none of these arguments can fully explain the increasing location of R & D labs in China. The in-depth study of MNCs R & D labs in Beijing and Shanghai, China, reveals that specific aspects of market, technological and political uncertainty provide a more adequate explanation to the increasing presence of R & D labs from MNCs in developing countries such as China and thus calls for an integration in the regional innovation systems framework.

Avdelning/ar

Publiceringsår

2012

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

264-284

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

International Journal of Technology and Globalisation

Volym

6

Issue

4

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Inderscience Publishers

Ämne

  • Economic Geography

Nyckelord

  • Catching up
  • China
  • Development
  • Globalisation
  • Innovation

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1476-5667