Innovation Mechanisms and Knowledge Communities for Corporate CentralR&D

An important method of enhancing or developing new corporate differentiating emerging technological competences is to establish corporate central R&D . This practice is centred on the competency‐based view of the firm and has been implemented by companies in numerous developed countries. Corporate R&D centres are now becoming important to newly industrialized smaller nations such as T aiwan. Yet few studies have investigated the R&D management practices of effective corporate central R&D centres in emerging countries. Here the case study method is used to review nine R&D centres from each of three countries: the USA , J apan, and T aiwan. Seven findings are provided regarding effective management of R&D centres.