| Author: | Meyer, A. |
| Title: | Internationalizing R&D improves a firm's technical learning |
| Journal: | Research Technology Management
1993 : JUL-AUG, VOL. 36:4, p. 42-49 |
| Index terms: | R&D COMPANIES LEARNING TECHNOLOGY |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Companies have been reluctant to internationalized the R&D function. The reasons for keeping R&D geographically centralized are mostly related to preserving optimal communication patterns. But market forces, and the diffusion of the sources of technological know-how, oblige many companies to decentralize and internationalize their R&D laboratories. How does one manage this international network of laboratories? The author takes the position that companies internationalize R&D to improve the process of technical learning. |
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