Abstract
This paper aims at analyzing the operation activities of MNEs’ Taiwan R&D center from Taiwan's perspective. First, we try to find out Taiwan’s unique competitive strengths which attract MNEs to deploy R&D in Taiwan, but not in the developed triad countries, such as China and India. Then we can provide policy suggestions for Taiwan government to keep the indigenous strengths and fortify them. Second, we are engaged in motivation, strategy and organization research to analyze the relationship of the progress of MNEs’ R&D plan—first, forming motivation of foreign R&D, then, developing R&D strategy and finally, building the global R&D network. Through these researches, both foreign and local enterprises can attain information about how to enhance the correctness of global R&D decision making and then build up an efficient global R&D network. In the discussion of motivation research after case study, we found that Taiwan distinguishes itself in the respects such as high-quality R&D human resources and tapping into nation innovation systems with universities, research institutes and local industrial supply chain. In strategy research, we adopted technology transfer – market focus dimensions to create four strategies: newcomer, special task, self-containment and global integration strategies. In organization research, we diversified R&D network into internal & external network. Of the internal network, we used Gassmann & von Zedtwitz’s five types of R&D network as the ground work and then discussed the R&D network type of overall business and the R&D status of Taiwan R&D unit. Also, we divided external network into four kinds of networks：independent, industrial- deepening, research- deepening and integrated R&D networks. By these network definitions, we were able to analyze which kinds of R&D networks the four researched R&D units belong to. Ultimately, we combined former researches to conclude how to form a R&D organization.