The share of nanotechnology publications involving authors from more than one country more than doubled in the 1990s, but then fell again till 2004, before recovering somewhat during the latter years of the decade. Meanwhile, the share of nanotechnology papers involving at least one Chinese...

Recent research has paid much attention to MNCs from developed countries, which are the largest international R&D investors. However, the germination of international R&D investment from emerging countries, such as China, has been neglected in academia. According to data from UNCTAD (2005) and...

Along with their mounting economic might, emerging economies are becoming the object of ever closer analytical attention. Yet the phenomenon of international research and development (R&D) from multinationals headquartered there still remains neglected. The current study analyzes Chinese...