Do Foreign Companies Conduct R&Din Developing Countries?
Amsden, Alice H.; Tschang, Ted; Goto, Akira | March 2001
Abstract
Multinational companies tend to conduct little research and development (R&D) outside their homebase, especially in developing countries. Singapore represents an anomaly because its multinationalfirms are reputed to undertake locally not only R&D but applied and possibly even basic research.Nevertheless, short of hearsay or peering over the shoulder of a researcher, there is no systematic orobjective way to determine from outside whether or not the classification of any given R&D effort iscorrect.This paper tries to create a system for determining the content level of R&D. Giventraditional R&D types (pure science, basic research, applied research, exploratory development oradvanced development), it introduces a new comprehensive taxonomy of R&D characteristics, suchthat variations in a characteristic behave systematically according to R&D type. The characteristicswe explore are: the search and objective of an R&D investment; its intended output; its time frame; themeasures of performance to which it is subject; the techniques employed by its researchers; their skillsand qualifications; and the overall size of an R&D investment. The empirical determination of thesecharacteristics does not require any infringement of a laboratory’s intellectual property.
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Amsden, Alice H.; Tschang, Ted; Goto, Akira. 2001. Do Foreign Companies Conduct R&Din Developing Countries?. © Asian Development Bank Institute. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/4119. License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.Keywords
Comprehensive Development Framework
Development Challenges
Development Planning
Millennium Development Goals
Policy Development
Program Evaluation
Performance Evaluation
Evaluation Criteria
Capital Market Development
Development Economics
Financial Sector Development
Technology Development
World Development Indicators
Evaluation Methods
Development assistance
ADB
Curriculum development
Development assistance
Development aid
Development indicators
Development potential
Development models
Project appraisal
Performance appraisal
Economic development
Economic indicators
Government programs
Economic growth
Economic policy
Industrial development
Industrial policy
Technology assessment
Economic evaluation
Economic forecast
Input output analysis
Communication in rural development
Communication in community development
Infrastructure
Central planning
Endowment of research
Partnership
Joint venture
Nation-building
Risk assessment
Economic development projects
Economic forecasting
Industrial research
Participatory monitoring and evaluation
Economic policy
Economic forecasting
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