-level export performance in Asia's super exporter - The People's Republic of China (PRC). While early studies suggested that … innovation was important, there has been little research on opening up the black box of technology at firm-level in the PRC. This … paper undertakes econometric analysis of innovation, learning, and exporting in automobiles and electronics firms in the PRC …

In 2010 China was the world's fourth largest filer of patent applications. This followed a decade of unprecedented … increases in investment in skills and Research and Development. If current trends continue China could rank first in the very … inventors creating technologies that are near to the science base. Part of the success of China has been to attract the …

angesichts massiv ausgeweiteter F&E Budgets in den letzten Jahren die Frage aufgekommen, inwiefern China in naher Zukunft nicht … auch zur Wissensfabrik der Welt aufsteigen könnte. Aber kann China tatsächlich auch zu einem Zentrum der globalen …

Sozialkapital wird definiert als geteiltes Wissen, Vertrauen und gemeinsame Kultur, eingebettet in Netzwerkstrukturen … und andere stabile Beziehungen zwischen Agenten. Es hat sich gezeigt, dass Sozialkapital schwieriger aufzubauen ist als … ökonomisches Kapital und dass es größere Auswirkungen auf die Gemeinschaft als Ganzes hat. Die Relevanz des Sozialkapital …

debated topic in the literature. Although controversial, such an argument has informed recent innovation policy across Germany …-based innovation policies are receiving, it is worth answering two main ques-tions. First, are firms with a relatively high level of … social capital likely to be more in-novative? Second, do companies pursuing innovation in partnership innovate more? This …

This study explores the impact of social capital on innovation by constructing a more general measure of social capital … that social capital has a positive impact on innovation at the national level. After controlling for R&D expenditure and … human capital there is a positive relationship between social capital and innovation. Social capital interacts with …

In the last decades substantive advance has been made in the measurement and understanding of frontier innovation in … are: a) how can we measure social capital and innovation in poor agricultural communities, b) what is the impact of … innovation has been elaborated and applied to the agricultural valley of Cháparra in the South of Peru. The results allow for an …

This paper investigates the interplay between social capital, innovation and per capita income growth in the European … Union. We model and identify innovation as an important mechanism that transforms social capital into higher income levels …. In an empirical investigation of 102 European regions in the period 1990-2002, we show that higher innovation performance …

effectiveness and efficiency of national and European innovation policies. Building on the literature on the knowledge production …