National Location Choice Of Overseas R&D Activities By Macs

R&D of Multinational Corporations(MNCs) are the major sources of their technical innovation and technology monopoly, which have proved vital to their survival and development in the domestic and international business markets both of which are characterized by severe competition. Consequently, all the MNCs intensely control over the management of R&D so as to minimize the possible technical overflow. However, since 1980's, with the development of knowledge economy and continued progress of economy and information globalization , more and more MNCs begin to decentralize their R&D units and locate them all over the world organically in order to adapt to complexity of market, variety of products and different likeness of different country consumers. Simultaneity in order to use scientific resource and reduce the cost and risk during the research, MNCs make their R&D activities decentralization and globalization to shape global R&D systems.Based on research of the relating domain, I investigate national location choice of MNCs' R&D investment from global view. The purpose is to analyze the disciplinarian and some factors affecting the national location choice, and to perfect and complement the theory of R&D globalization and location choice, then to provide some means for our government to lead R&D investment and R&D globalization of our corporationsOn sections and chapters, I firstly bring out background and meaning of this...