TY - JOUR
T1 - Managing local knowledge assets globally
T2 - The role of regional innovation relays
AU - Asakawa, Kazuhiro
AU - Lehrer, Mark
N1 - Funding Information:
The first author would like to thank the R&D Department of Keio University Graduate School of Business Administration for the financial support.
PY - 2003/2
Y1 - 2003/2
N2 - We studied "regional innovation relays" as MNC regional offices that mediate between knowledge generation at the local level and knowledge application at the global level. The significance of the region as a nexus of innovation is illustrated by concrete examples from U.S. and Japanese MNCs. The role of regional management for the MNC's innovation system hinges precisely on the need for linkages between knowledge embedded in locally conducted activities and innovation exploited at the global level by the MNC. A framewotk of regionally facilitated innovation illuminates this process.
AB - We studied "regional innovation relays" as MNC regional offices that mediate between knowledge generation at the local level and knowledge application at the global level. The significance of the region as a nexus of innovation is illustrated by concrete examples from U.S. and Japanese MNCs. The role of regional management for the MNC's innovation system hinges precisely on the need for linkages between knowledge embedded in locally conducted activities and innovation exploited at the global level by the MNC. A framewotk of regionally facilitated innovation illuminates this process.
KW - Globally distributed innovation
KW - Multinational corporations
KW - Regional management
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U2 - 10.1016/S1090-9516(02)00107-4
DO - 10.1016/S1090-9516(02)00107-4
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0037300397
SN - 1090-9516
VL - 38
SP - 31
EP - 42
JO - Journal of World Business
JF - Journal of World Business
IS - 1
ER -