Abstract
Offshore knowledge incubation (OKI) denotes the effort by foreign R&D units of MNCs to achieve local embeddedness within the host-country R&D system, even at the expense of remaining detached from the rest of the MNC. An open-ended social interaction and learning process, OKI can be seen as a novel path of MNC subsidiary evolution. In a qualitative study of eight European "knowledge incubators," the concept was found to be useful for analyzing the adjustment in R&D strategies of Japanese firms venturing into basic research abroad and of U.S. information technology companies coping with the turbulent IT environment of the 1990s.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 297-306 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | Journal of World Business |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2002 |
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Offshore knowledge incubation : The "third path" for embedding R&D labs in foreign systems of innovation. / Lehrer, Mark; Asakawa, Kazuhiro.
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