Strategic Motivations of Inward R&D FDI

Osagie Igbinigie is Lecturer in International Finance at the University of Wolverhampton. His research interests lie in the areas of motivations and impacts of inward and outward R&D-related FDI, focusing on advanced economies and comparing between OECD and non-OECD countries.Mark Cook is Reader, International Business at the University of Wolverhampton. He has published extensively on FDI, focusing on aggregate inward UK determinants at both national and regional levels. His current research interests include FDI into the peripheral regions of the UK and comparative studies of African-inbound FDI.Lucy Zheng is Professor of International Business Management at Sheffield Business School, Sheffield Hallam University. Her research interests lie widely in international business, management, economics, and entrepreneurship, with a core focusing on FDI and emerging markets.

• 1. Background and Research Rationale.- 2. Strategic Choice of R&D FDI.- 3. Empirical Literature on the Specific Motivations of FDI.- 4. Conceptual Framework - A Model of R&D FDI Motivations in the UK.- 5. Dynamic Panel Data Analysis Techniques.- 6. Motivations of R&D FDI in the UK – Analysis, Discussion and Conclusion.- 7. Research Conclusions and Emerging Agenda.