Global R&D and China How Western Companies Tap into the Know-How of the East
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This book examines the extent, scope as well as the challenges of foreign research and development (R&D) in China, which has become the number one choice of R&D for multination corporations (MNCs). The phenomenon has become a hot issue among policy debates in many countries regarding job outsourcing, national and regional competitiveness, and China. This book will address the issues of foreign R&D in China: the drivers, missions, locations, management challenges as well as policy related topics.
This book examines the extent, scope as well as the challenges of foreign research and development (R&D) in China, which has become the number one choice of R&D for multination corporations (MNCs). The phenomenon has become a hot issue among policy debates in many countries regarding job outsourcing, national and regional competitiveness, and China. This book will address the issues of foreign R&D in China: the drivers, missions, locations, management challenges as well as policy related topics.
This book examines the extent, scope as well as the challenges of foreign research and development (R&D) in China, which has become the number one choice of R&D for multination corporations (MNCs). The phenomenon has become a hot issue among policy debates in many countries regarding job outsourcing, national and regional competitiveness, and China. This book will address the issues of foreign R&D in China: the drivers, missions, locations, management challenges as well as policy related topics.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Witney
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Woodhead Publishing Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-84334-221-2 (9781843342212)
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Yifei Sun is Associate Professor at the Department of Geography, California State University Northridge. His research interests lie within urban and regional economics, particularly in the relationship between technology and urban/regional development in China. Max von Zedtwitz is a Professor of Technology & Innovation Management at Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R. China and has published widely on R&D management, in particular transnational R&D organization and technology-based entrepreneurship. Denis Fred Simon is Provost and Vice President at the Levin Institute of International Relations and Commerce, State University of New York. He has written and lectured widely regarding innovation, high technology development, foreign investment and corporate strategy in the PacRim.
Yifei Sun is Associate Professor at the Department of Geography, California State University Northridge. His research interests lie within urban and regional economics, particularly in the relationship between technology and urban/regional development in China. Max von Zedtwitz is a Professor of Technology & Innovation Management at Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R. China and has published widely on R&D management, in particular transnational R&D organization and technology-based entrepreneurship. Denis Fred Simon is Provost and Vice President at the Levin Institute of International Relations and Commerce, State University of New York. He has written and lectured widely regarding innovation, high technology development, foreign investment and corporate strategy in the PacRim.
Yifei Sun is Associate Professor at the Department of Geography, California State University Northridge. His research interests lie within urban and regional economics, particularly in the relationship between technology and urban/regional development in China. Max von Zedtwitz is a Professor of Technology & Innovation Management at Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R. China and has published widely on R&D management, in particular transnational R&D organization and technology-based entrepreneurship. Denis Fred Simon is Provost and Vice President at the Levin Institute of International Relations and Commerce, State University of New York. He has written and lectured widely regarding innovation, high technology development, foreign investment and corporate strategy in the PacRim.
Content
Globalization of R&D and developing countries; R&D in China: historical and institutional perspectives; Science and technology takeoff in China: historical and theoretical perspectives; Drivers and dynamics of foreign R&D in China - motivations and history of foreign R&D in China; Foreign R&D in selected cities - Foreign R&D in Shanghai, Beijing and Nanjing; Challenges of managing foreign R&D in China - Goverment, intellectual property rights, labour mobility; Global R&D and China's national innovation system - interactions with universities, enterprises and others; The future of foreign R&D in China and beyond - prospect and implications of foreign R&D in China.