Multinational enterprises and technology transfer
by lngeborg Menzler-Hokkanen
International Journal of Technology Management (IJTM), Vol. 10, No. 2/3, 1995

Abstract: The diversity of the roles played by foreign R&D in multinational enterprises is demonstrated in this paper. In many multinational enterprises (MNEs) R&D has taken its place among the key internationalized functions. It is recognized that this enhances MNEs' ability to utilize diverse sources of scientific input efficiently, and to do so as part of an increasingly globalized basis of competition. In formulating their attitudes to multinationals' R&D units the host countries also need to acknowledge the diversity of the roles such units play, and thus also to consider the range of potential benefits and costs which they bring. The granting of world product mandates to subsidiaries in particular merits further investigation as a possible means whereby multinationals may create production facilities which possess independent innovative potential of their own.

Online publication date: Sat, 23-May-2009

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