Theoretical And Empirical Analysis Of Multinational Corporations In China R & D Investment

Coupled with the knowledge economy rising and the international market competition becoming worse, the multinational corporations looking for main factor of strengthening the competition ability has already extended from the sale, produce to research & development. 2002 China absorbed FDI more than 50 billion and became the country which absorbs most FDI in the world. And because China has many advantages, such as market is large and manufacture ability is strong, many multinational companies build up organizations of research & development in China by many ways. In the last few years especially, it quickly developed. Over 400 companies of the 500 biggest companies in the world have already built up the research & development centers in China. Based on the background, to research the multinational company R & D investment in China has important realistic meaning.Although the origin of multinational company can trace back to 60-70's in 19 centuries and there are a lot of research achievements in the motive, region, character, influence and countermeasures of the multinational company overseas investment, it is still a new filed to research the multinational company overseas R & D investment. Relevant researches mostly aim at discussing the regional choose of multinational company overseas R & D investment and something else, but few researches are from the point of view of host country.The foreign economists explain the multinational company overseas R & D investment mainly from two directions. One is to use traditional international investment theories to explain the phenomenon and the multinational company overseas R & D investment is regard as one kind of the international investment. Another research direction is using the enterprise strategic theories, industry organization theories and market structure theories to explain multinational company overseas R & D investment. In China there are also many economists do the research of multinational company overseas R & D investment, such as...