A GLOBÁLIS VÁLLALATI KUTATÁS-FEJLESZTÉSI AKTIVITÁS FELTÉRKÉPEZÉSE BIBLIOMETRIAI ELEMZÉS SEGÍTSÉGÉVEL = MAPPING GLOBAL CORPORATE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES THROUGH A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS

Csomós, György (2016) A GLOBÁLIS VÁLLALATI KUTATÁS-FEJLESZTÉSI AKTIVITÁS FELTÉRKÉPEZÉSE BIBLIOMETRIAI ELEMZÉS SEGÍTSÉGÉVEL = MAPPING GLOBAL CORPORATE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES THROUGH A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS. FÖLDRAJZI KÖZLEMÉNYEK, 141. ISSN 0015-5411 (In Press)

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Abstract

Corporate research and development (R&D) activities have long been highly concentrated in some world cities. Tokyo, New York, London, and Paris, are home to not only the largest and most powerful multinational companies, but they are globally important sites for innovative start-up companies that operate in the fastest-growing industries. However, in parallel with the rapid technological changes of our age, corporate R&D activities have shifted towards newly emerged and now globally significant R&D centres, like San Jose, San Francisco, Boston in the United States, and Beijing, Seoul, Shenzhen is East Asia. In this paper a bibliometric analysis is conducted to determine how the position of cities as sites of corporate R&D changed in the period of 1980 and 2014. The bibliometric analysis is based upon a hypothesis according to which there is a close connection between the number of scientific articles published by a given company and the volume of its R&D activity. Results show that companies headquartered in Tokyo, New York, London, and Paris published the largest combined number of scientific articles in the period of 1980 and 2014, but the growth rate of the annual output was much greater in Boston, San Jose, Beijing, Seoul, and some Taiwanese cities. Furthermore, it can also be seen, that those cities have the largest number of articles, i.e. can be considered as the most significant sites of corporate R&D in which companies operate in fast-growing industries, primarily in the pharmaceutical and the information technology industry. Furthermore, some mid-sized cities that are home to globally significant pharmaceutical or information technology companies are also belong to the group of top corporate R&D hubs.

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