Production and R&D networks of foreign ventures in China: implications for technological dynamism and regional development

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Publication Type Manuscript
School or College College of Social & Behavioral Science
Department Geography
Program Institute of Public and International Affairs (IPIA)
Creator Wei, Y. H. Dennis
Other Author Zhou, Yu; Sun, Yifei; Lin, George C. S.
Title Production and R&D networks of foreign ventures in China: implications for technological dynamism and regional development
Date 2012-01
Description This paper analyzes the nature of FDI local networks in production and R&D activities in China and discusses their implications for technological dynamism and regional development. We investigate foreign ventures (or foreign-invested enterprises, FIEs) in the information and communication technology (ICT) industry, based on a large-scale survey of ICT firms conducted in three mega-city regions of China: Beijing, Shanghai-Suzhou, and Shenzhen-Dongguan. Our data show that FIEs in China are gradually localizing their production, but the extent of local embeddedness is contingent upon home country effects, local specific contexts and FDI-host region relationships. We have also found significant influence of industrial agglomeration on FDI location and network decisions. Beijing tends to have broader FDI sources and better integrated global-local networks, while in those regions dominated by FDI such as Suzhou and Dongguan, FIEs are thinly embedded with local economies and tend to establish global-local networks among themselves; local embeddedness is limited by a series of technological, institutional, spatial, and structural mismatches. Shanghai and Shenzhen are in between. More efforts are still needed to better integrate FDI with local economies and strengthen China's local innovative capacities.
Type Text
Publisher Elsevier
Journal Title Applied Geography
Volume 32
Issue 1
First Page 106
Last Page 118
DOI 10.1016/j.apgeog.2010.06.008
citatation_issn 1436228
Language eng
Bibliographic Citation Wei, Y. H. D., Zhou, Y., Sun, Y., & Lin, G. C. S. (2010). Production and R&D networks of foreign ventures in China: implications for technological dynamism and regional development. Applied Geography, 1-33.
Rights Management (c) Elsevier http://dx.doi.org/[place doi for article here]
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Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s67d3ck4
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