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Korporacje transnarodowe a globalna działalność badawczo- rozwojowa
Transnational Corporations and global research and development activities

Author(s): Anna Odrobina
Subject(s): Economy
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego we Wrocławiu
Keywords: Transnational Corporation (TNC); Global R&D; Technology Transfer; FDI

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the TNC’s role in global R&D. The conducted analysis considers TNC’s largest R&D expenditures and the motives for establishing foreign R&D units by Transnational Corporations. The author also concentrates on the process of knowledge transfer generated by TNC with respect to the international licenses trade and the technology diffusion by FDI.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 267 Vol 2
  • Page Range: 144-154
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Polish