and in knowledge-intensive service industries make a larger direct contribution to employment than start-ups affiliated … with other industries. We also find a relatively strong overall effect of new business formation in knowledge …

, but Chinese patenting for exploitation on the main markets for innovation(the European Union, Japan and the US) is still … marginal. - Asia's increased innovation spending is most prominently related to information and communication technologies …. Overall, the Chinese and Korean economies are still not specialised in knowledge-intensive goods and services …