# Professor Sabrina Howell shares insights on R&D spending in US and Chinese tech firms

1 Faculty News October 30, 2018 ![Wall Street Journal logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/wsjlogo.jpg?itok=5Qt0z3WX)>

Excerpt from [The Wall Street Journal](https://www.wsj.com/articles/american-tech-firms-are-winning-the-r-d-spending-race-with-china-1540873318) -- "Alibaba, Tencent and other large Chinese firms, more so than their American counterparts, have sought to innovate through acquisition rather than with in-house research, said Sabrina T. Howell, an assistant finance professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business who researches American and Chinese innovation. 'Some of what you see in R&D is the outsourcing of innovation in China,' she said."

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