Hierarchical Segmentation of R & D Process and Intellectual Property Protection : Evidence from Multinational R & D labs in China

Doing R&D in Countries with Weak IPR Protection: Can Corporate Management Substitute for Legal Institutions?

Multinationals are increasingly conducting R&D in countries such as India and China, where intellectual property rights (IPR) protection is still very weak. This paper examines this puzzle. The argument is that weak IPR leads to low returns to innovation and thus low prices of innovative talents. Multinational firms who possess not only the capabilities to utilize these talents, but also the in...

Conducting R&D in Countries with Weak Intellectual Property Rights Protection

Multinational enterprises (MNEs) are increasingly conducting R&D in countries such as China and India, where intellectual property rights (IPR) protection is still far from adequate. This paper examines the puzzle. I argue that weak IPR leads to low returns to innovation and underutilization of innovative talents; MNEs who possess alternative mechanisms for protecting their intellectual propert...

The Roman domination and domatic numbers of a digraph

A Roman dominating function (RDF) on a digraph $D$ is a function $f: V(D)rightarrow {0,1,2}$ satisfying the condition that every vertex $v$ with $f(v)=0$ has an in-neighbor $u$ with $f(u)=2$. The weight of an RDF $f$ is the value $sum_{vin V(D)}f(v)$. The Roman domination number of a digraph $D$ is the minimum weight of an RDF on $D$. A set ${f_1,f_2,dots,f_d}$ of Roman dominating functions on ...

Intellectual Property Protection , Market Orientation and Location of Overseas R & D Activities by Multinational Enterprises Nagesh

Global R&D Alliances in China: Collaborations With Universities and Research Institutes

A learning perspective was applied to examining when multinational corporations select universities rather than local firms as partners in international R&D alliances. Data were collected on 327 international R&D alliances established over the 1995–2001 period in China, an emerging economy where intellectual property rights protection is still far from adequate, over the 1995–2001 period. The e...