Internationalization of R&D in two high-tech clusters and cooperation of R&D units in those clusters
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.
Author: Peter Štrukelj, Slavko
Dolinšek
Journal Code: jptindustrigg100031
