Multinational companies in China R&D investment location patterns

• 1、Southeast University

Abstract：R&D are one of the core functions of multinational corporations, which at the overall business strategy of multinational companies occupy an important position. With the deepening of the internationalization of multinational corporations, they have changed their R&D activities will be concentrated in the home country of tradition, at a global scale organized R&D activities, R&D activities to promote decentralization, internationalization, the formation of R&D of global integration. With multinational corporations in China-based production and marketing of regional distribution of direct investment, multinational corporations in China R&D investment has a more obvious non-balanced geographical distribution. In this paper, multinational companies overseas R&D investment location theory of the multinational corporations in China R&D investment location pattern analysis and evaluation, and on this basis put forward some positive proposals.

Keywords： Multinational corporations R&D investment Location model