Understanding the role of knowledge and organizational learning in fostering or inhibitinginnovation becomes crucially important (Lam, 2005). Innovation is not an isolated processof neither individuals nor firms. Innovation is a process which happens in a system whereinteraction between firms,...

The market-oriented economic reforms that started in 1978 have greatly transformed the Chinese economy. China’s GDP has increased tenfold since 1978 while the per capita income has grown at an average annual rate of more than 8% over the last three decades, drastically reducing poverty....