Formation of R&D Alliances in Chinese Mobile Telephony Industry
With the development of Chinese economic and technological competences, Chinese companies attract foreign investment not only in production but also in research and development (R&D). Chinese companies are also engaged in building R&D collaborations with foreign companies. This study explores this relatively new and unexplored area of international R&D alliances in China - formation determinants from Chinese perspective. We focus our research on the Chinese mobile telephony industry. Based on a developed database and qualitative interviews with senior R&D managers and strategy managers, we examine forms and foreign partners of R&D alliances and the factors determining such R&D activities in Chinese mobile telephony industry. The findings suggest that the nature of the technology, the characteristics of partners, and the previous cooperation experience between partners are significantly related to the R&D alliance formation.
R&D alliance formation determinants Chinese mobile telephony industry
CHONG LI-choy Maximilian von Zedtwitz JIN Jun
Asia Research Centre,FIM-HSG,University of St.Gallen,St.Gallen,Switzerland School of Economics and Management,Tsinghua University,Beijing,P.R.China
国际会议
杭州
英文
250-254
2004-10-24（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）