美、日跨国公司从全球竞争战略出发,持续保持对中国的投资热,并一直高居我国第二和第三投资大国的地位。最近几年,为了充分利用我国现有的科技资源、降低新产品研发过程中的成本和风险,美、日跨国公司已经在中国有组织地安排科研机构。两国在中国R&D投资区位选择上既有明显的共性,但在微区位选择、投资行为上又存在明显的差异。本文通过对美、日跨国公司在中国R&D的投资区位的比较,提出我国应对海外R&D投资战略的建议和策略。

Proceeded from the global competition strategy,American and Japanese MNCs maintain their investment craze for China and rank Chinese 2nd and 3rd investment powers as well.In the last few years,to make full use of the existing scientific resources,and to reduce the cost and risk of the under-research products,American and Japanese MNCs have arranged Scientific Institutions in China systematically.The two countries are sharing obvious commonness in their choices of investment location.By the comparison of the RD investment location advantage between American and Japanese MNC in China,the article propounds the corresponding suggestions and tactics to the overseas RD investment strategies.The comparison of investment location of American and Japanese MNCs in China shows that,America and Japan are the two major investment countries in Chinese RD institutions.There are two common grounds in two countries' investment location distributing.They are the preference of coastal areas and the choice of places that near universities and scientific research economic city centers.The difference is,compared with Japan's preference of Changjiang Delta,America extends from coastal areas to inland.Though both countries set up RD institutions in China,America takes the first lead with its larger investment structure and localization of its scientific research stuff.