碩士 / 淡江大學 / 產業經濟學系博士班 / 96 / Under the wave of globalization, innovation activities are no longer confined to the developed countries.. Currently, many multinational enterprises (MNEs) not only establish R&D center in home country, but also set up R&D labs oversea, with various considerations to choose the offshore R&D locations. In this study, we apply Bivariate probit model to the firm level data of Taiwanese manufacturing to investigate the relation between domestic and oversea R&D decisions, and their determinants. The heterogeneity between high-tech and non-high-tech industries is considered and a time trend variable is introduced to investigate if the impact of oversea R&D decision on domestic R&D decision expressed a traceable trend.
According to our empirical result, the decisions of domestic and oversea R&D activities are highly correlated in the samples of whole Taiwan manufacturing, the high-tech and non-high-tech industries. Specifically, in the high-tech industry, the direct impact of oversea R&D decision is negative on domestic R&D decision. In addition, the negative impact of oversea R&D decision on domestic R&D decision increases as time passed , no matter in the samples of the whole manufacturing, or the high-tech , or the non-high-tech industries. These results imply that the small and medium-sized enterprises in Taiwan usually do not have that much bankrolls on innovation to support domestic and oversea R&D activities at the same time, thus they will tend to choose their R&D location between home country or oversea only.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TW/096TKU05334008 |
| Date | January 2008 |
| Creators | Chun-Hung Lin, 林俊宏 |
| Contributors | Pei-Chien Lin, 林佩蒨 |
| Source Sets | National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan |
| Language | zh-TW |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Format | 60 |
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