set of reforms over a 30-year period which effectively embedded knowledge creation in the Coastal regions of China. This … establishment of Special Economic Zones. The second process was accumulation of knowledge through the establishment of Science … the reform of China’s educational system. While the first two processes facilitated knowledge transfer and knowledge …

knowledge, innovation and growth in the past and by identifying whether and how the scope for catch-up growth exists. We focus …What is the relationship between technological innovation, entrepreneurship and development? Is it better for … on the interesting case of technological innovation in the comparative economic performance of China; we draw some …

innovation sales and to create new knowledge qualified for patenting. In addition to own R&D activities, they rely on sourcing … knowledge from different sets of sources to support them to carry out the last three types of innovation outcomes …This paper investigates whether knowledge transferred from different sources matter differently for carrying out …

(EU), which aims to become the world's leading knowledge-based economy, has a fragmented and expensive system of national … life sciences, where patents are critical to competition, need an enabling environment to institutionalise innovation and … IP generation and reward investments in IP.The US has approached IP strategically and created an IP infrastructure. Japan …

How are Asian countries preparing children to have skills—including creativity, innovation, and technical capability …—to compete in the 21st Century global economy? Countries including China, Korea, Japan and Singapore have begun to integrate … education policy and practice into a key component of national innovation strategies: human capital development. Asian countries …

The discussion paper summarizes the results of a workshop that focussed on the institutional foundations of innovation … in China's Business System', 'Recent Changes to Korea's Innovation Governance', 'Standardization and Institutional … Complementarities in Japan - Empirical Results from SAP R/3 Implementations in Japanese Automotive Suppliers'. …

been for many years behind USA and Japan and before China, from the point of view of innovation performances, the …This paper tries to analyse some important and present aspects of the European Union situation in the innovation … activity, relatively to its main competitors on the global market: USA, Japan and China. The study shows that, although EU has …