Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/188424 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Citation: 
[Journal:] Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management (JIEM) [ISSN:] 2013-0953 [Volume:] 3 [Issue:] 2 [Publisher:] OmniaScience [Place:] Barcelona [Year:] 2010 [Pages:] 294-308
Publisher: 
OmniaScience, Barcelona
Abstract: 
In the paper, we present how transnational corporations (TNCs) internationalize their R&D and how they allocate foreign R&D units in high-tech clusters, where competitors of these TNCs, research and academic institutions, and suppliers of these TNCs are also located. We confront two paradigms of R&D internationalization (traditional and new one) and we determine what are the main motives that drive R&D internationalization of TNCs. Based on a modern innovation theory, we derive a cluster approach as a specific method of analyzing modern R&D internationalization. We then present an analysis of two high-tech clusters (Cambridge, Bangalore) and we show that some TNCs allocate their foreign R&D units into those clusters, in order to make use of available external knowledge from academic institutions through intensive R&D collaborations.
Subjects: 
transnational corporations
R&D internationalization
clusters
R&D collaboration
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