C<sc>hen</sc> K. and G<sc>uan</sc> J. Measuring the efficiency of China's regional innovation systems: application of network data envelopment analysis (DEA), <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. This study applies a relational network data analysis envelopment to the systematic evaluation of the innovation efficiency of China's...

We present the network of scientific journals pertaining to Chinese patent data in the period of 1995–2002, in which two journals are considered linked if they have been cited by a common patent. We study a variety of statistical properties of the network of scientific journals of China...

Different from previous studies analyzing the influence of network structure on actors’ performance by using a single network perspective, this article explores the impact of multilevel networks on innovation. Using a sample of 41,007 patents in the field of alternative energy of the USPTO...

A framework for technological and organizational capability audits is proposed, and the relevance of integrating technology and organization and product competitiveness of Chinese firms is then examined. Empirical data were acquired through a recent study of innovative firms from Beijing, China....

Scientists from universities are becoming more proactive in their efforts to commercialize research results. Patenting, as an important channel of university knowledge transfer, has initiated a controversy on potential effects for the future of scientific research. This paper contributes to the...

This paper uses scale-independent indicators to explore the Chinese national and regional innovation systems during economic transition. Our perception of an innovation system is frequently informed by conventional indicators based on linear assumptions while actually innovation systems may...

This paper investigates the impact of small world properties and the size of largest component on innovation performance at national level. Our study adds new evidence to the limited literature on this topic with an empirical investigation for the patent collaboration networks of 16 main...

In this paper we use scale-independent indicators to explore the performance of the Chinese innovation system from an economic and from a science and technology point of view, and compare it with 21 other nations. Some important developments in the Chinese innovation system, hidden by rankings...

Although a large amount of past research has theorized about the character of national innovation systems (NISs), there has been limited process-oriented empirical investigation of this matter, possibly for methodological reasons. In this paper, we first propose a relational network data...