A Study on the Impact of Regional Environments between Vietnam and Taiwan to Taiwanese Manufacturing Firms' RandD Locational Choices

摘要

This paper analyzes the impact of RD locational choices that manufacturing firms in Taiwan take under the differentiation of locational advantages between Vietnam and Taiwan as well as improves some points which are incompletely focused in the same study on Taiwanese firms, the cross-strait, and overweighing case-studies in the past. The empirical evidences bring that the impact of variables to locational distribution of Taiwanese manufacturing firms across the strait is many: locational advantages, the type of RD unit, the scale of the market, political conditions, industrial clusters, knowledge flows and RD investments. Except for the negative relationship between the scale of market/type of RD unit and RD locational choices, the rest variables have the positive relationship with RD locational choices, which means that, barring that the scale of market in Taiwan is so small that Taiwanese firms choose to set up RD spots in Vietnam, other variables in Taiwan are more attractive than those in Vietnam; Taiwan possesses in negligible energies of regional creativity.