This paper analyzes the role of innovation activities in the export participation of Chinese high-tech firms during the … firm-level innovation efforts, measured by R&D and product innovation dummies, play only a minor role for domestic … exporters. Foreign-invested firms dominate the high-tech exports but do not rely on indigenous innovation activities. These …

-specific institutional factors – financial, legal, and labor market institutions – affect the group-innovation relationship. The empirical …, GAFs are more innovative than SAFs: we estimate the innovation propensity of GAFs to be 9% higher than that of SAFs …

, (4) policy driven, (5) production driven and (6) innovation driven. The management style of local R&D sites is different …, market, policy and production driven), networking with local innovation system (local firms, university and public research … (subsidiary and local players) is important for innovation driven R&D. In addition, it is important to manage the balance between …