During the 20 years of the Hewlett-Packard (HP) established production facility in Singapore to produce calculators, HP has invested managerial talent and resources in the development of the licensor of technology development partners. Basic parts of a large increase in the volume of production facilities and the establishment of R & D-center. Various projects, which are described in Singapore contributed to increase the number of skills that lead to the failure to fully jointly develop a new printer. Singapore now feels ready to develop on your printer for the Japanese market, and it raises the question of whether or not she is ready to do so. There is also the question of the Japanese developers understand the market well enough to continue. "Hide
by Dorothy Leonard-Barton, George Thill Source: Harvard Business School 18 pages. Publication Date: September 27, 1993. Prod. #: 694035-PDF-ENG
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