Ang, Yuen Yuen; Jia, Nan; Automator, APSA; Huang, Kenneth G. - 2021
patents—a standard measure of innovation output. We employ an original dataset of 4.6 million patents filed in 333 Chinese … cities from 1990 to 2014, and we also provide a rigorous measure of patent novelty, a proxy for the quality of innovation … national campaign to promote “indigenous innovation” has spurred a nationwide boom in the number of patents, the novelty of …