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Factors Affecting on the Performance of Overseas R&D  

Cho, Jung-Eun (College of Business Administration, Seoul National University)
Kim, Dong-Hee (College of Business Administration, Seoul National University)
Kim, Soo-W. (College of Business Administration, Seoul National University)
Oh, Jung-Suk (College of Business Administration, Seoul National University)
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International Journal of Quality Innovation / v.10, no.2, 2009 , pp. 43-56 More about this Journal
Abstract
Many companies are trying to acquire innovative technologies and relevant knowledge by sending R&D work overseas. Although recent research has been focusing on the aspects that motivate MNCs to establish offshore R&D facilities, such as cost reduction and market expansion, little is known about external or circumstantial factors influencing the performance of global R&D activities. Searching for enhancers of offshore R&D facilities, we investigated the relationships between the performance of offshore R&D and the technological capabilities of a parent company, its home country, and its R&D hosting country. Both patent data of ED and the ED R&D scoreboard of 134 overseas R&D labs from 46 MNCs, dating from the period of 2003 to 2005, are used in the analysis. The same time period is applied in calculating the RTA of each country. Regression analysis results support our main hypothesis that the technological capabilities of the parent company and the hosting country positively affect the performance of overseas R&D.
Keywords
Global R&D; Patent; RTA; Technological Capability;
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