Глобализация промышленных исследований и разработок: социологический аспект

Abstract

Binay Kumar Pattnaik - Professor of Sociology, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. E-mail: binay@iitk.ac.in Address: Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, 208016, IndiaThe study analyses the impact of changing patterns of globalization on the diffusion of RD the emerging flatter world technological regime; the multinationalization of RD the globalization of local RD and the off-shoring of R&D services by firms in developing countries. These formulations are based on a wide spectrum of reported empirical and secondary data from across developing countries.Placing the impact in the theoretical framework of the new dependence school, the author concludes that center-periphery relations are also evolving, eroding the distinctiveness of the concept of periphery.