Innovation in China

2014

Abstract: This paper focus on the clustering dynamics based on/supported by R&D offshoring trends as exemplified by the biopharmaceutical sector in China. It suggests two baselines of the institutional arrangements appropriate to initiate innovation-based clusters: (1) emphasis on the linkages and expansion in global innovation networking, and (2) focus on breeding regional innovation networks and enterprise’s embeddedness. Above, especially in pharmaceuticals and biotechnology, these two-dimension baselines are closely intertwined and develop by means of R&D offshoring and clustering dynamics, as it is demonstrated by the case study of interaction and co-evolution between Chinese and multinational pharmaceutical companies (MPCs).

International Business Review, 2007

This paper investigates vertical knowledge transfers from inward-invested multinational enterprises to indigenous Chinese suppliers in the electrical and electronics industry in Wuxi, China. Through 16 dyadic case studies, a three-stage pathway of relationship development is established in which the types of knowledge transferred evolve as the relationship and the cooperative activities within it, deepen. Contingency factors are found to either accelerate or prolong the relationship development at each stage. We conclude with implications of our findings for academic scholars and managers.

The Journal of Technology Transfer, 2016

The focus of this paper is to review the qualitative case methods that have been used in technology transfer research over the last 20 years from 1996 to 2015. Qualitative case methods allow for more in-depth analyses and provide the opportunity to place research into a certain context due to the selection of e.g. specific sectors, institutions, countries, etc. Using a systematic literature review of five of the top journals in the field of technology transfer research, namely Journal of Technology Transfer, Research Policy, Science and Public Policy, R&D Management and Technovation, it yielded 107 articles using the search terms: "Technology Transfer" AND ("Case Study" OR "Case Method" OR "Qualitative"). Our findings found a clustering of themes using qualitative case methods around technology transfer mechanisms and TTOs, academic entrepreneurship, university-industry collaboration, commercialization as well as R&D and firm knowledge transfer. We also identify trends in case method technology transfer research with respect to authorship, location of papers, sectoral contexts, data collection, numbers of cases and data analysis software. We conclude our paper discussing the implications of trends and themes and suggest that researchers need to reflect on used terminology to describe qualitative case methods and their utilization. We conclude by postulating a to advance technology transfer researcher further there is a need for more plurality of data collection methods for qualitative case methods research.

2012

The British Academy of Management Annual Conference, 1997

Skip to content | main University navigation | local section navigation | search. Aston University: Site AZ; Contact us; Directions; Main University navigation links: Home; Study at Aston; About Aston; Departments; Birmingham; Research; Business Services; News & Events. Login | Create Account, Analysing technology based relationships between foreign and Chinese firms. Bennett, David J.; Hongyu, Z. and Vaidya, Kirit (1997). Analysing technology based relationships between foreign and Chinese firms. ...

International Journal of Technology Management, 2001

Foreign direct investment has been important in China's economic development since the early 1980s. In recent years the volume of inward FDI into China, according to some estimates, has been second only to that into the United States. The Chinese government has emphasised the need for FDI to be coupled with the transfer of more advanced technologies to China. For foreign companies technology transfer raises the risk of losing their technology based competitive advantage to potential competitor firms. This risk may be exacerbated by insufficient legal protection of intellectual property rights in China. After briefly reviewing the development of Chinese official policy on technology transfer, this paper considers the strategy adopted by EU companies regarding the transfer of technology; in particular in advanced technology sectors. The research on which the paper is based included an analysis of information gathered from 20 leading EU companies with investments in China and operating in high-technology sectors. Information was gathered from senior company managers based in both China and Europe during the second half of 1998. The main findings include a measure of reluctance on the part of EU companies to transfer their core technologies to China and to base R&D capability there. At the same time, the companies appear aware that this policy may be unsustainable in the longer-term in the face of Chinese official policy and a desire to expand their operations in China. While they attempt to protect their existing technological knowledge, most of them accept that there will be technology 'leakage' and therefore the most effective strategy is to maintain their technological lead through R&D. * One firm answered 'don't know' and another 'no comment'. The percentages therefore relate to the 18 firms that answered either yes or no. ** percentages relate to the 15 firms who said no to the previous question.

Handbook of Qualitative Research Methods for International Business, 2004

5. Designing and Conducting Case Studies in International Business Research Pervez Ghauri INTRODUCTION A case study is not a methodological choice, but rather a choice of object to be studied. Case studies can be both quantitative and qualitative. In this chapter, I deal ...

The Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation, 2016

Case Study Research Design and Methods (2014) is currently in its fi ft h edition and continues to be a seminal text for researchers and students engaged in case study research. Since the book's fi rst release 30 years ago (1984), case study research has gained considerable acceptance as a research method, likely a result of Yin's unyielding position that case study be considered a separate and all-encompassing method with its own research design. Th is current edition of the book is heavily infl uenced by the advances in case study research and remains a defi nitive guide on how to design more rigorous and methodologically sound case studies that will stand up to questions of validity and reliability. Importantly, Yin manages to link theory and practice by presenting the breadth of case study research and its historical signifi cance at a practical level. It is Yin's view that, when "the process has been given careful attention, the potential result is the production of a high-quality case study" (p. 199). Th us, a comprehensive and systematic outline for undertaking the design and conduct of a case study is presented in a very straightforward and readable manner throughout the book's 282 pages. Ultimately, Yin argues that case study research is a challenging endeavour that hinges upon the researcher's skills and expertise. As such, this edition includes more diffi cult concepts to guide researchers and students in the work of carrying out more rigorous case study research, thereby retaining Yin's ultimate goal "to improve our social science methods and practices over those of previous generations of scholars" (p. xxvi). Building on the key strengths of earlier editions, the book's crisp structure has benefi ted from numerous editions with reviewer feedback, and it continues to serve as an exemplar for other methodological guides. Th e book shows the case study research process as a "linear but iterative process" (p. xxii) and provides practical and technical discussions on each of the six elements of case study research: the plan, design, preparation, data collection, analysis and reporting. Each of these features forms the topic of the book's six chapters and together are represented by an overarching six-circled visual display. For those researchers interested in going a little deeper into some elements, Yin also provides practical exercises with challenging methodological questions or situations that can be addressed. Th rough these structural features, as well as the book's enhanced headings and subheadings, numerous supporting resources, and the excellent cross-referenced index in Appendix C, Yin makes a complex methodology much more approachable.