Theoretical Study on the Motivation of R&D Investment Internationalization of Transnational Firms
研究了跨国公司研发投资国际化的新动机,包括获取东道国技术资源、技术扩散的外部收益以及增加竞争对手进入基础研究领域的成本,对理解全球化研发投资有参考价值。
The RD investment of transnational firms(TNC) is not just driven by changing technology according to demands of host countries as before. In fact, what the TNCs really want through internationalization RD are also to get technological resource of host countries, external benefit of their technology diffusion, increase competitor's cost to enter the field of basic research. It's believed that these motivations are playing more and more important roles during globalized RD investment of TNCs.