21st century has witnessed a new trend in transnational corporation’s development- the internationalization of the R&D. On the one hand, this new form of transferring international technology is indispensable to the implementation of TNCs’ globalization strategy; on the other hand, it will also pose a far-reaching impact to the producing country’s economic development. Affected by an integration of different factors, the TNCs’ R&D investment in China has gradually become prominent since China joined the WTO, and is now taking on a new feature under the new stage.
Such investment continues to expand in scale and raise the level, and has already been a crucial component of China’s R&D system. This surely brought new opportunities to China’s economic development, but at the same time, carrying back numerous challenges.
Based on the study of the feature and motivation of TNCs’ transferring R&D to China, this thesis analyzes both its positive and negative influences, which provides a few thoughts for the national enterprises to cope with such transfer. And thereby, to better prepare China to undertake the international R&D transfer and speed up the national enterprises’ development.
