Home base and foreign direct investment in research and development

Foreign direct investment (FDI) in research and development (R&D) is an increasingly important element of overall firm strategy in technologically intensive industries. These essays examine a number of questions related to FDI in R&D from both a theoretical and an empirical perspective. The first essay analyzes the international dispersion and location of corporate R&D activities from a theoretical perspective. The second essay examines the determinants of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in research and development laboratories by 32 multinational enterprises in the pharmaceutical and electronics industries. The third essay examines the relationship between performance and size of R&D laboratories operated abroad. The fourth essay investigates the resource allocation process for research and development laboratories abroad from an administrative perspective.