Locational Determinants of Overseas R&D Investments by Chinese Firms

• 作者: Chengyang Luo Li Zhu Ramasamy Jayakumar Sheng Wu Xielin Liu
• 来源期刊: Innovation and Development Policy
• 学科: 经济
• 关键词: "Going Global"strategy host country LOCATION overseas Research and Development(R&D) overseas R&D subsidiaries
• 年，卷（期）: 2019,（2）
• 页码范围: 104-118
• 页数: 15页
• 分类号: F279.2

摘要

In this paper, we study the location distribution and determinants for Chinese firms’ overseas Research and Development(R&D) activities, based on a dataset of 1,500 Chinese firms that established overseas R&D subsidiaries during the years 2010-2014. Integrating Dunning’s eclectic paradigm and Uppsala Model, we construct a two-dimensional model, which consists of the determinants from host countries and from the interactions between the host countries and the home country, China. We use a multiple-regression method to analyze the determinants and rationale of the location choice of Chinese firms’ overseas R&D activities. By identifying the determinants of the location of the Chinese firms, we aim to reveal whether and where the location strategy of Chinese firms’ R&D globalization differs from those of the firms in the U.S., Europe and Japan;and to provide a reference for Chinese firms in their strategy-making on R&D globalization.