. Theoretical considerations based on the New Institutional Economics suggest that, in a transition economy such as China, companies … (electronics industry) companies operating in the PRD, China. From this we obtain some, though often weak, evidence in favor of the …

This paper addresses the relationships between innovation, research and development (R&D) and productivity in domestic … ICT firms in Costa Rica. Factors considered were the types of innovation outputs produced by domestic ICT firms, the … relative importance of innovation inputs, the impacts of innovation on firm productivity, the protection of innovations, and …

This paper explores the "black box" of innovation in the electronics production network in East Asia through a mapping … exercise of technological capabilities and an econometric analysis of exporting in the People's Republic of China (PRC … behavior and complement the literature on production networks. The econometric results confirm the importance of foreign …

-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 …

This paper investigates whether and how China's adoption of Soviet-aided industrialization programs in the 1950s has … affected its long-run innovation. Focusing on 156 major industrial projects aided by the Soviet Union, combined with an … programs for long-run innovation due to firms adopting incentive-incompatible management technology. …

Innovation is the major driver of economic growth and development. To analyze innovation processes the restriction of a … framework suited to the analysis of innovation towards the industrial sphere of an economy is not sufficient because of the … important co-evolutionary dimensions of innovation. Instead, a comprehensive economic theoretical approach is needed which …