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THURSDAY June 3, 2010
SCV Technology Management Chapter?
Speaker: Xiaohong “Iris” Quan, PhD, Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship, San Jose State University
Time: Registration & Informal Networking at 6:00 PM; Management Forum at 6:30 PM; Dinner at 7:15 PM; Presentation at 7:45 PM
Cost: $10 for IEEE members; $13 for non-members
Place: RAMADA Silicon Valley, 1217 Wildwood Ave, Sunnyvale
RSVP: from the website
Web: www.ieee-scv-tmc.org

Multinational corporations (MNCs) have increasingly located research and development (R&D) activities in developing countries such as China and India since the 1990s.? While governments in developing countries are eagerly attracting foreign R&D to their local economies, developed countries are concerned about losing their competitive advantage due to R&D offshoring.? Given the weak Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) regimes in developing countries, intellectual property protection has emerged as a major concern.
Dr. Quan will address the following questions: What exactly do MNC R&D labs do in China?? Why do they invest in such R&D activities?? How do they protect their intellectual property rights there?? How do the MNC R&D labs interact with the local innovation systems?
In summary, she will briefly discuss a comparison of the emerging MNCs from China.? Dr. Quanâ??s formal research addresses these issues.