主题：Conducting R&D in Multiple Countries: The Role of IPR Protection in Explaining Firm Performance

主讲人：王成岐，诺丁汉大学教授

时间：11月19日（周四）上午9：00-11：30

地点：经管院B249

主办单位：武汉大学经济与管理学院工商管理系

讲座主要内容：

Firms that conduct R&D in multiple countries face the daunting challenge of dealing with cross-country variations in intellectual property rights (IPR) protection. We examine how two technology-protection mechanisms, namely, geographic fragmentation of R&D (cross-country fragmentation of R&D) and IPR heterogeneity (conducting R&D in both strong and weak IPR protection countries), enable firms to protect their technologies from imitation, while also accessing external knowledge, and therefore improve their productivity performance. Evidence from a longitudinal analysis of 564 R&D units located in 47 countries provides support for the effectiveness of IPR heterogeneity as a technology protection mechanism, but shows that geographic fragmentation of R&D is not effective when IPR heterogeneity is controlled for. Our analysis also suggests that weaker IPR protection enhances the effects of both external knowledge and the firm’s own R&D on its performance. Overall, our study enhances understanding of conducting R&D in multiple countries explains why some firms benefit from conducting R&D in weak IPR protection countries while other firms do not, identifies which mechanisms are effective in protecting technology, and challenges the prevalent view that weak IPR protection is disadvantageous for firm performance.

主讲人简介：

Chengqi Wang is Professor of Strategy and International Business at Nottingham University Business School, University of Nottingham. He joined Nottingham University in 2007. Prior to this appointment, he worked at Leeds University Business School during 2000 and 2006. His research focuses on the determinants and spill-over effects of foreign direct investment, the antecedents and performance implications of internationalization of emerging market enterprises, and the strategies and performance implications of R&D internationalization. He has published over 50 papers in refereed international journals (mostly ABS 3* and 4*). These include Journal of International Business Studies (31(3), 33(4), 38(3), 43(7)), Research Policy (47(1), 47(7), 44 (3)), Journal of World Business (51(2), 55 (3)), Journal of Product Innovation Management, and British Journal of Management. You can find these publications at Google Scholar, Scopus Author Preview and Researcher ID.

His research work has received strong international recognition in the form of Google scholar citations and global scholar rankings. His publications have attracted more than 5200 Google scholar citations. Journal of International Management (ABS 3*, 2016, Volume 22, Issue 4) ranks him world no. 11th in research on multinational firms from emerging markets based on impact score. International Business Review (ABS 3*, 2019, Volume 28, Issue 6) ranks him world no. 16th in in terms of the numbers of publications and citations these publications have attracted in the journal.

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