The Analysis Of Influence Factors Based On The Industries And Regions Of MNCs R&D Organizations In China

With the trends of globalization of economy and the rapid development of science and technology, more and more MNCs begin to decentralize their R&D units and locate them overseas in order to gain the R&D resources throughout the world. At the same time, along with the rapid development of Chinese market-economy, more and more MNCs begin to establish their R&D units in China, especially in lately4-5years, as is noticed by scholars and policy makers. But they mainly concentrate in the current status, characteristics, types of activities and the location choice of these R&D institutions, the research of these R&D institutions industry selection and the comparative analysis of location choice based on different industries of R&D institutions are very few.The industry of the R&D units of MNCs in China is the result of the interactions between the internal motivations and industry characteristics factors. And to different industries, the location of the R&D units of MNCs in China is the result of the external environment between the various areas of our country. This paper will discuss the location decision based on different industries of R&D units of MNCs in China from the internal level and the external level. Firstly, this paper will discuss the current industry status of overseas R&D investment of MNCs. And then the paper will analyze the industry decision factors from three kinds of internal motivations and two kinds of industry characteristics,which are market_driving,resource_seeking and market_exploiting, the industry competition in China and the industry following up of R&D units of MNCs. Thirdly, based on the mainly industry of R&D units of MNCs, the paper will discuss the environment factors attracting overseas R&D units of MNCs from the external level. At last, the paper issues some suggestions for attracting foreign R&D units.