Research Projects
Home-base-exploiting vs home-base-augmenting strategies of foreign R&D by US electronics firms
Title: Home-base-exploiting vs home-base-augmenting strategies of foreign R&D by US electronics firms
Abstract: This exploratory paper uses US patents to investigate the R&D locational strategies of the top patenting US electronics companies over 1976-2005, with a focus on non-Japan Asia. Our analysis suggests that home-base-exploiting R&D remains the dominant R&D strategy for US electronics firms in Asia, but there is a trend towards more HBA R&D in Korea and Taiwan in recent years. Policy implications for the host economies in Asia are discussed.
Publication: Invited for submission to the Special issue of IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management on “Hybrid innovation management and global corporations.”
Authors: Wong, P.K. and Singh, A.